162 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



Just note how Mr. Haeckel compares the acts of the 

 cell in perfecting the eye with the acts of man in perfect- 

 ing- and developing the telescope and microscope. The 

 following statement also by Mr. Haeckel seems to me 

 quite a conclusive admission by him of intelligence in the 

 cell mind : "The history of civilization teaches us that 

 its gradual evolution is bound up with three different 

 nrocesses : 



(1) Association of individuals in a community. 



(2) Division of labor (ergonomy) among the social 

 elements and the consequent differentiation of structure 

 (polymorphism) . 



(3) Centralization or integration of the unified whole, 

 or rigid organization of the community. The same fun- 

 damental laws of sociality hold good for association 

 throughout the entire organic world and also for the 

 gradual evolution of the several organs out of the tissues 

 and cell communities. The formation of human societies 

 is directly connected with the gregariousness of the near- 

 est related mammals. The herds of apes and Ungulata, 

 the packs of wolves, the flocks of birds often controlled 

 by a single leader, exhibit various stages of social forma- 

 tion as also the swarm of the higher articulates (insects, 

 Crustacea), especially communities of ants and termites, 

 swarms of bees, etc. These organized communities of 

 free individuals are distinguished from the stationary col- 

 onies of the lower animals chiefly by the circumstance 

 that the social elements are not bodily connected but held 

 together by the ideai link of common interest." 



If the cell has gone through the same process of social 

 organization and evolution as man, why is he not also the 

 same intelligent being as man? Did you ever stop to 

 think what takes place when the surface of the body is 

 cut or bruised? The white blood cells, as they are called, 



