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provided with food consisting of the starch of the kernel 

 which is sufficient until they have been able to get them- 

 selves established in the soil and by the aid of sunlight to 

 make their own food and building material from the raw 

 material at hand. The corn building cells work with a 

 purpose in view arising from a desire to effect certain 

 ends. We build houses, make clothes, produce food. We 

 want and need these articles. We must be protected from 

 the weather. This causes the construction of all kinds 

 of structures to protect us from the elements. The need 

 of food of all kinds caused the railroads and in this man- 

 ner we can trace every desire to do any particular act to 

 arise from our wants and necessities. The desire has 

 stimulated effort, and effort has devised and conceived 

 structures and methods by which it could be accom- 

 plished. In the effort to build a house certain activities 

 take place involving judgment and discretion. Such ma- 

 terial will be selected as in the judgment of the builder 

 is most suitable. Every act will involve intelligence, in 

 order that the structure shall conform to the mental pic- 

 ture of what the'builder wants. In the same manner does 

 everything that we see come to be and exist from the most 

 complicated city block and railroad system to the smallest 

 living organism. In this particular I agree with Mr. Dar- 

 win, who states : 



"That animals have a capacity to be modified by pro- 

 cesses which their own desires initiate." He states fur- 

 ther in another place that : "Their powers are excited 

 into action by the necessities of the creatures which pos- 

 sess them and on which their existence depends." Again 

 he states : "That from the first rudiment or primordium 

 to the termination of their lives, all animals undergo per- 

 petual transformations which are in part produced by 

 their own exertions in consequence of their desires, aver- 



