WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? 199 



take care of the business at every step ; as soon as he 

 gets too large to be taken care of inside of the body, elab- 

 orate preparations take place for disconnecting him with 

 the inside conditions. Food is prepared for him by a force 

 of cells at the place where it is to be delivered to him after 

 he gets outside. 



This food is so properly proportioned and balanced that 

 he will get everything necessary for the further develop- 

 ment of his body. Some one must be interested in his 

 welfare, and take care of him with the same faith and 

 good will as before, so the cells that had charge of him 

 while inside of the body continue to look after him, and 

 these cells are allowed full control of the brain cells and 

 all other cells of the mother. Her mind is taken posses- 

 sion of by these cells or nerve centres who have the work 

 in hand of perpetuating the race and she is compelled to 

 think that her infant is the only thing in the world worth 

 while. She will sacrifice her life and everything, if neces- 

 sary, to save her baby. 



We find upon investigation that nerve cells have been 

 placed near the lips and the mouth of the infant, which 

 direct every muscular act of the infant's mouth in the act 

 of sucking. We have found now that the infant's mus- 

 cles are able to walk when he is born, but he has not the 

 nerve centres developed to direct the muscular action 

 required in the act of walking ; that as soon as they are 

 developed, he will walk whether he has had any practice 

 or not. How the infant's mouth can know how to suck 

 and his feet to walk, will be explained under the chapter 

 on inheritance. 



Some decline to consider the idea that anything as small 

 as a cell can have intelligence. How about the ant? He 

 lives a social life in the same manner as the most highly 

 civilized species of man. 



