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of a fine and coarse pattern in the skin. The influence of 

 each eye extends over the entire body. The skin becomes 

 yellow when a yellow card is placed very near the head. 

 A flounder deprived of one eye simulates the background 

 quite normally, but there is no simulation whatever when 

 both eyes are removed. Flounders fail to simulate the 

 ground in very strong illumination from above and they 

 become white on all ground when their eyes receive no 

 light directly from above. Adaptation to the ground is 

 not effected by covering the skin with sand, so that the 

 fish cannot see it. Vision in fishes is very like human 

 vision in regard to shade and color, but less acute in 

 regard to size. Flounders distinguish between dots of 

 two millimeters and three millimeters and recognize dots 

 of one millimeter, but not those of five-tenths millimeters. 

 By means of a rotating background of black and white 

 sectors the acuteness of vision in regard to motion was 

 found equal to that of man. Flounders adapted to a given 

 color seek ground of that color, and color in the skin is 

 produced only by exposure to the same color." 



It is a singular thing that scientists and the human 

 mind by reason of vanity or for some reason will not 

 conceive, or are not able to see that the minds that direct 

 these very difficult acts of effecting these protective colors 

 in fishes and animals are the cell minds and cell intellects. 

 They build the fish and take care of it for their own selfish 

 purpose. They alone are responsible for its success. 

 These are facts we do not have to guess at. We do not 

 have to spin any theory about it because we can see it. 

 In a daily paper I read the following in regard to the acts 

 of man and animals in reference to this same trait of 

 taking advantage of protective color: "If man has learned 

 clever tricks for deceiving his enemy he has been taught 

 bynature. In all nature there is scarcely an animal which 



