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taken care of in the body from which they came. They 

 must remember how the special committees were ap- 

 pointed to take charge of this and that department. They 

 must remember all the different things necessary to run 

 the social organization of the cell colony which we call 

 animal. The gathering and storage of food, the distribu- 

 tion of the same, general information, policemen, trades- 

 men, etc, all this work must be taken care of and pushed 

 along according to the records of the past. The streets, 

 passages and stores must be placed at such places, and 

 made of such material as they think best, that is in accord- 

 ance with what they can remember from their past ex- 

 perience. How do we know that the cell has the power 

 of memory? We can prove it in many ways. First, we 

 know that the cells in our brain our thinking cells, have 

 the power of memory. We know that a brain cell is no 

 different from any other cell of our body. Ideas come 

 and go in our minds. My acts of yesterday or twenty or 

 fifty years ago appear before me and go away like actors 

 on the stage or in a moving picture. When the actions 

 took place fifty years ago, they were preserved in a record 

 in such a manner that they are ready and available for 

 future use and reference. We speak of the unconscious 

 life or unconscious mind, and unconscious memory. It 

 would be more correct to speak of the mind and memory 

 of those cells of the body that are not immediately con- 

 nected with our senses. It is now, however, generally 

 understood that memory belongs to both consciousness 

 and unconsciousness. 



The muscles of the body could not be trained to per- 

 form any difficult act if they did not possess the power 

 of memory. I begin tc run my automobile at first very 

 slowly every act must be directed with my conscious- 

 ness. After a while certain nerve centers or cells learn 



