138 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



sible to distinguish moving men from waving shrubbery 

 when but a few yards distant. 



Practically every army involved and they include 

 many nationalities and many picturesque styles of uni- 

 form practically unheard of on this side of the Atlantic 

 is adopting this method of uniforming, to some extent. 



You see that these acts of man and animals, which we 

 consider very intelligent when performed by man as an 

 individual, we refuse to consider intelligent when per- 

 formed by animals or more correctly speaking by the ani- 

 mals we call cells, who build the animals and perform 

 the work. 



There is a moth called, "The Death's Head Moth," 

 because it has the resemblance of a skull and cross-bones 

 on its head, which is merely an arrangement as a pro- 

 tective color. A scientific magazine makes the following 

 remarks about it : "The Death's Head Moth not only 

 has a mouth with which to eat, but it can make a noise 

 which resembles that of a mouse. It is the only moth 

 which makes any sound. It is this peculiar sound which 

 it makes, as well as its resemblance to a skull and cross- 

 bones marked upon its head, which makes superstitious 

 people afraid of it, for they believe that it brings them 

 trouble. The moth though forbidding in appearance is 

 entirely harmless, of course." 



Now who are the most intelligent beings, the brain 

 cells directing the action of the man afraid of this moth, 

 or the cells that build and direct the moth? Which of 

 the two are the most profound thinkers? It would seem 

 that the cells in the moth discovered the superstitious 

 nature of man and adopted this style of protective color 

 to frighten him. 



In reference to the intelligence of insect-building cells 

 of all kinds many of which are also able to change their 



