228 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



high order. We have no microscope at this time power- 

 ful enough to see the individual or primordial beings, 

 that make up the individual we call cell, but we can 

 clearly see the actions and methods of the cell, and I wish 

 the human mind to understand this proposition right and 

 acknowledge the intelligence of his maker, the cell. 



Mr. Haeckel gives him a name, as if he had no more 

 intelligence than a stone, calls him a "plasm" or "living 

 matter." Later in his book, he gives a description of him 

 in a different light and compares his acts of special pro- 

 gress, with those of man. He makes the following state- 

 ment : 



"We need only to glance back half a century, and com- 

 pare life today with what it was then, in order to realize 

 the progress made. If we regard the modern state as an 

 elaborate organism (a 'social individual of the first 

 order'), and compare its citizens to the cells of a higher 

 tissue-animal, the difference between the state of today 

 and the crudest family groups of savages is not less than 

 that between a higher metazoon (such as a vertebrate) 

 and a coenobium of protozoa. 



"The progressive division of labor, on the one hand, 

 and the centralization of society, on the other, prepare 

 the social body for higher functions than in isolation, and 

 proportionately increase the worth of its life. To see 

 this more clearly, let us compare the personal and social 

 value of life in the five chief fields of vital activity, 

 nutrition, reproduction, movement, sensation, and mental 

 life." 



Now if the cell has gone through the same process as 

 man in gradually learning, discovering and taking ad- 

 vantage of the benefits of social life, why has he not done 

 so by reason of his intelligence, just as man has. 



