240 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



to effect any particular molecular combination of matter 

 they wish. 



All plant and animal cells know how to use sunlight 

 for making the different kinds of building material which 

 they may need. The tree must have an outside covering 

 so with the energy of sunlight, the cells who occupy it 

 make what we call bark from the crude material taken 

 from earth, air and water. Heat is required to start chem- 

 ical action. The sun is usually the only source of heat at 

 the surface of the earth, and it was the most natural thing 

 that the cell should discover methods to utilize this power. 

 Just think what a discovery it would be, if the human race 

 should discover this method of making starch or other 

 fibers from earth, air and water ! 



Since we have already discovered the secret of extract- 

 ing free nitrogen and a number of other chemicals from 

 the air, which was known only to a few species of cells a 

 few years ago, why should we not in time discover this 

 most important secret of all, how to make starch and fats 

 from crude matter? We can not hope to learn how to do 

 these things by merely observing the actions of the cell. 

 Our eyes are made to see things a thousand times larger. 

 We are living in a different world. However, it is a chem- 

 ical secret and it can be discovered by experimental work. 

 We see in this microscopic wonder who makes food for 

 himself and also for us, the same living being as ourself. 

 He is a composition of intelligence and matter, race and 

 individual, life and death, past and future, all gathered to- 

 gether in one, just as it is in us. 



We see that the matter of size makes no difference. 

 How many ages did the cell live singly and separately in 

 the world, in this manner, making its own food, before it 

 learned to associate itself into communities like plants 

 and animals? When we consider the old ruins left in the 



