206 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



this difficult work without any previous experience or in- 

 struction? The cells that build the young or new wasp 

 came from the mother wasp. It is the cells that know 

 how, not the wasp, just as it is the people in the battleship 

 that know how to shoot and not the battleship. Just so, it 

 is the cells in your head that know how to do a thing and 

 not yourself; and every specific part of your knowledge 

 is in charge of some certain bunch of cells in your brain, 

 who have that specific department of knowledge in charge. 

 It is likely that the wasp building cells experimented for 

 hundreds and thousands of years before they completely 

 mastered the profession of stinging the insects just in the 

 right place to effect the desired results. The cells in the 

 new wasp must be in possession of the same knowledge 

 as the mother as they are of one and the same family. 



Compare the actions of the Hunter Wasp whose brain 

 is composed of possibly only a half dozen individual cells, 

 whose brain is but an invisible microscopic speck, with 

 the actions of man, whose brain is composed of more than 

 800 million individual cells. Whose actions show more in- 

 telligence, those of the wasp as a skilled surgeon, or those 

 of the men trying to make the ass make a fool of himself, 

 by putting him up in front of the altar to bray? 



The brain of man is at least a million times larger than 

 the brain of the wasp, and still its capacity to reason is 

 not nearly as good as that of the wasp. The actions of 

 all animals, insects and plants when closely investigated 

 show no foolish and purposeless actions, like man's. This 

 is clear proof that the cell as a separate individual is just 

 as intelligent as a billion individuals. It is clear that if 

 the wasp building cells know how to make a special in- 

 strument or stinger with which to be able to pierce and 

 inject poison into the hard protected body of other insects, 

 they should also know how to use it when they are ready 



