98 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



most cases, as ovarian development proceeds, definite as- 

 sociation is established between the egg and surrounding 

 cells. As a rule the material elaborated by the nutritive 

 cells is passed into the egg either in solution or in the 

 form of granular protoplasmic substance. In some form 

 each egg is accompanied by a single nurse cell attached 

 to its side with which it floats free in the body cavity. The 

 nurse cell is at first much larger than the egg cell. The 

 egg cell rapidly grows, apparently at the expense of the 

 nurse cell, which becomes reduced to a mere rudiment, 

 attached to one side of the egg and finally disappears. In 

 mysostoma, the young egg is accompanied by two nurse 

 cells, one at either end." 



This shows clearly that the germ cells, as they start 

 out from one body with the intention of building another 

 and new body, are generally provided with food to give 

 them a start in life ; and in many cases separate cells or 

 servants are provided who go with them and carry the 

 food for them. The reader must be able to see at this 

 time that the cells in all the details of their inner life act 

 precisely as we do. They act with a purpose and accord- 

 ing to a preconceived plan. Why should they act differ- 

 ently? The ideas that direct our actions are nothing more 

 than the ideas of cells located in our head, who have 

 charge of that particular work in our bodies of thinking 

 and directing our actions: 



There must have been a time in the past million years 

 when those primordial cells that make up the cell and 

 which they call chromatin granules, lived separate and 

 single lives alone in the world, just as a great number of 

 species of the single cell are doing today. You might say 

 that from the way it looks, the cell is not the real builder 

 but that the real builder is the primordial cells that have 

 associated together and organized this individual we call 



