198 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



The cell must have lived for ages before it discovered 

 the advantages of working together in a social and co- 

 operative community, before it even started to build any 

 structures like plants and animals. So man lived for 

 ages before he discovered the benefits of working together 

 in a civilized community. However, we know that savage 

 man works and moves with a purpose and has the same 

 intellectual machinery as civilized man and other animals. 

 They all work for a purpose and do what they think or 

 believe to be the right thing to do. If the cells have or- 

 ganized these social communities, just as man has his, 

 why are the cells not as intelligent as man? Civilized 

 man only a few years ago thought that burning witches 

 was the right thing to do. Just a few years ago, you might 

 say, the most highly civilized people in the world tied 

 their wives, mothers and sisters to stakes and burned 

 them alive. They did it with a purpose, thinking it was 

 the right and proper thing to do. People are doing things 

 today just as ridiculous and absurd. We are intelligent 

 beings, at least we are supposed to be. Do insects ever 

 do anything as foolish? When we investigate the won- 

 derful organization of the cell communities which make 

 up the body of an animal or plant, it is impossible to see 

 anything but actions performed with a purpose and di- 

 rected by intelligence. Take for instance, in the case of 

 an infant, why is the baby born so helpless? Why is 

 he not born like the pig, with ability to care for himself 

 and run like a rabbit within twenty-four hours? When 

 you come to consider the matter, however, he is able to 

 do everything necessary for his existence. He can make 

 a noise, breath and suck. He knows how to suck as if 

 he had practiced it for years. 



The cells of the body which have charge of the work 

 of building and starting a new human being in the world. 



