276 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



trout and the lily, 24; in the ox, guinea pig and in man, 

 the number is said to be 16, and the same number is char- 

 acteristic of the onion." It is very likely that these chro- 

 mosomes represent different departments of the special- 

 ized individuals. 



A conclusive proof that it is no chemical proposition 

 but that the cell is an active, intelligent being and knows 

 what he is about to do, is the fact that if you destroy the 

 original cell or any one of them up to the number of fifteen 

 cells after the first division, any one of the remaining cells 

 will go on and build the body and finish the work just the 

 same. This experiment seems to me to be conclusive 

 proof that the cells build and work entirely from memory. 

 They know what they are there for and what they started 

 out to do, and whether one or more are accidentally killed 

 in the beginning does not stop the rest of them from go- 

 ing on with the work and completing the structure. The 

 following by Mr. Walker also tends to prove the proposi- 

 tion : 



"On the other hand, Roux also found that in his ex- 

 periments, when carried on further, the existing half em- 

 bryo restored more or less completely the missing half. 

 Later experiments by other observers were made with 

 the eggs of several other animals, which appear to show 

 that in the earlier stages of development, at any rate, all 

 the cells into which the fertilized ovum divides retain the 

 power of producing all the tissues that would under or- 

 dinary circumstances be produced by the fertilized ovum 

 itself. Driesch, Morgan, Wilson, Zoja and others have 

 separated the cells produced by the division of the fer- 

 tilized ovum when development had gone as far in some 

 cases as the sixteen cell stage. These experiments seem 

 to prove that the characters cannot be represented by en- 

 tities that are distributed in a selected manner among dif- 



