CHAPTER VI. 

 INTELLIGENCE OF THE CELL. 



In a previous chapter we discussed the question as to 

 what was intelligence in an animal. We found it con- 

 sisted of the work of two departments of the individual, 

 the sense organs and the brain. The sense organs must 

 gather the information from the outside world and trans- 

 mit it to the cells in the brain and the brain cells must act 

 on such information. These are the requirements for the 

 performance of an intelligent act by an animal, based on 

 every other intelligent act and power, which we call mem- 

 ory. Memory is the power to take and keep a record of 

 past events and use it as a reference and guide to future 

 acts. 



This power of storing away memoranda of different 

 transactions that have taken place in the past, we find is 

 possessed by all cells or living beings. 



Three things are necessary to make up the mental ma- 

 chinery of an individual, viz., to receive, to think and to 

 direct. Those three things go together to make up what 

 we call the mind. 



In the past the subject of mind had been studied as the 

 human mind, animal mind and child mind, but of late it 

 has been recognized that all living beings have a mind. 

 Now this question of mind can be studied in two ways ; 

 first, by examining your own mind and the actions arising 



