

INTELLIGENCE OF THE CELL 261 



I have examined all of these plants and several others. 

 They stand as a living example of the inventive genius 

 and intellectual capacity of the cells which occupy them. 

 All of these plants understand how to make starch and 

 food from the crude material of earth, air and water; 

 there was no necessity for these traps in order to per- 

 petuate their existence. They could not in any case have 

 come to exist by slight beneficial variations of the leaves, 

 because they would be of no benefit until completed as a 

 fly-trap. The traps must have been fully planned in the 

 minds of the builders before they took any steps toward 

 their construction. Darwin's Theory of Evolution could 

 have had nothing to do with producing this structure by 

 beneficial chance variations. 



In fact, in every case where I have investigated the 

 theory of evolution's producing any structure, I have 

 found that it does not produce. The theory of the sur- 

 vival of the fittest, in so far as its causing the existence of 

 anything, is a myth. . It is an incident that determines 

 which of two shall live, but that is not necessarily the best 

 man. It ignores the activities of the producer and does 

 not pretend to point out who the producer is. 



In a struggle for existence between two men, the 

 stronger will not necessarily survive, the weaker is just 

 as likely to survive. He may use poison, or some other 

 unfair means against his opponent. The one with the 

 most inventive skill and intelligence will generally sur- 

 vive. So in any way you examine it, intelligence is the 

 cause of all living structures, whether they are houses, 

 railroads or battleships built by man, or plants and ani- 

 mals built by cells. Someone must be there with the in- 

 telligence, as so far we have not found anything produced 

 by magic or a miracle. 



The singular and significant thing about these plants 



