222 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



Comparative anatomy, moreover, acquaints us with the 

 long and gradual development which the phronema has 

 undergone within the higher class of the vertebrates, 

 from the amphibia and reptiles up to the birds and mam- 

 mals, and, within the last class, from the monotremes and 

 marsupials up to the apes and men. The human brain 

 seems to us today to be the greatest marvel that plasm, 

 or the 'living substance,' has produced in the course of 

 millions of years." 



You notice here how he states that the human brain is 

 the greatest marvel that "plasm" or "living substance" 

 has produced in the course of millions of years. Why not 

 call them cells or beings, instead of such nonsense as 

 "plasm" and "living substance." Those words are not 

 only meaningless but misleading. 



There is no difference whatever in the brain of the 

 jackass and the brain of the President of the United 

 States, except that one contains more cells than the other. 

 The cells are themselves the same kind and size, but the 

 human brain contains more of the individual cells, which 

 gives the human mind or brain more chance or power to 

 specialize and to think in more ways and on a larger 

 number of subjects. 



There is no question but that this extra size of the 

 brain has weakened the power of the human mind to 

 reason and think in a general way. I cut the following 

 article from the Kansas City Daily, not long ago, which 

 should give one some food for thought : 



"Ten years in the federal prison at Atlanta was the 

 penalty inflicted upon four young Navajo Indians of 

 Arizona, who murdered a medicine man, Gi Shin Beta, 

 because they believed the arts he practiced upon the sick 

 'were shot with witchcraft born of the devil,' resulting 

 in the death of two patients who never recovered from 



