100 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



of the primordial cells inside of the cell and this is what 

 he says in reference to their appearance : 



"In the rhizopod, the remarkable protozoan who as a 

 unicellular organism sheds so much light on the obscure 

 wonders of life, we notice a curious streaming of the gran- 

 ules in the living plasm. Within the cytoplasm of the 

 amoeba particles travel up and down in all directions." 



The following is Prof. Haeckel's observation in refer- 

 ence to how they act in conjugation : 



"When two ciliated Infusoria conjugate, they place 

 themselves side by side and connect for a time by means 

 of a bridge of plasm. A part of the nucleus of each has 

 already divided into two portions, one of which functions 

 as the female standing nucleus and the other as the male 

 traveling nucleus. The two mobile nuclei enter the plasm 

 bridge and move through it, pushing against each other 

 into the body of the opposite cell ; they then coalesce with 

 the deeper lying standing nucleus. When the fresh nu- 

 cleus has thus been formed (by amphimixis) in each of 

 the copulating cells, they again separate. The two re- 

 juvenated cells have once more acquired the power to 

 propagate for a time by division." 



Mr. Binet, who believes the cells show a psychic phe- 

 nomena, makes the following remarks : "The sexual ele- 

 ments and especially the spermatozoid of all unicellular 

 organisms are certainly the ones which show the most 

 highly developed psychical functions : the act of seeking 

 and approaching the ovule, which is frequently situated 

 at quite some distance from where the male element is de- 

 posited ; the length of road to be traveled ; the obstacles 

 to be overcome ; all point to faculties in the spermatozoid 

 that are not explainable by simple irritability." 



The reader by this time will see that not only has the 

 cell all the special sense organs possessed by animals in 



