THE LIVING STRUCTURES 



127 



will see is a moving habitation something like a sub- 

 marine with a fishing apparatus attached. 



We never stop to consider the position occupied by the 

 individual cells that build animals and plants, who must 

 conceive and execute ideas. While this submarine like 



FIG. 21. Lure Fish. 



individual was lying in wait for his victim, it must have 

 occurred to the cells occupying and in charge of it that 

 animals are attracted by a light. That if they could fix 

 up a shining bait, which they could let out a short dis- 

 tance to attract attention, they could hide their sub- 

 marine and decoy their victims within reach of their grap- 



