INTELLIGENCE OF THE CELL 257 



upon removal they collapse, not being able to support 

 themselves. Water-plants are also usually provided with 

 air-chambers and passageways that the air may be free 

 to reach the working cells." 



In what manner do these structures differ from those 

 of man under similar circumstances? Although the cell 

 is an animal that lives naturally in water, still it also re- 

 quires air and as it is evidently easier to extract oxygen 

 from air than from water, it has provided air chambers 

 filled with air under water. I have examined a number of 

 water plants and every one of them has hollow open 

 chambers under water which are always filled with air. 

 Now some one must understand how to build these air 

 tight chambers and fill them with air. The air chambers 

 in bamboo rods are sometimes an inch across and five to 

 ten inches long. Those who think that it is an easy mat- 

 ter to build and maintain air tight chambers under water 

 and keep them filled with air had better try it and be 

 convinced that the cell is just as skilled and smart in his 

 line of business as any one else. 



I do not pretend to know what intelligence is, nor what 

 memory is, but I want to show that the cell is a being 

 possessed of that something, whatever it is. If man is 

 intelligent the cell must be. The cell is an active living 

 animal, he mates, loves, feels, eats, drinks, breathes, 

 jumps, moves, and performs all the things that every 

 animal does, that is, he has the essential attributes of a 

 living being. 



Before closing this chapter, I must describe a few of 

 the hundred or more varieties of plants which have fly 

 traps with which they catch and devour insects of all 

 kinds. These plants should illustrate to the reader most 

 clearly what a plant or animal really is. The reader 

 should be able to comprehend from these plants provided 



