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CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



actions. If the cells of the body possess the power of 

 memory so as to be able to remember how to perform the 

 complicated movements involved in playing a piano, guid- 

 ing an auto, etc., it seems only reasonable that the germ 

 cell should be able to remember how to build another 

 body like the one from which it came, especially when he 



M 



FIG. 43. Seed-cells or sperm-cells from the se 



broad side of the flattened, pear-shaped nucleus portion of the sperm-cell (the so- 

 called "head of the sperm-animalcule") is represented in the drawings marked 

 7; the narrow side in those marked // : k, kernel of the sperm-cell; m, central 

 portion (protoplasm) ; s, active tail-like process (whip) ; M , four human sperm- 

 cells; A, two sperm-cells of the ape; K, of the rabbit; H, of the common mouse; 

 C, of the dog; S, of the pig. SCHUTE. 



has been set aside as a special committee to look after 

 that work and nothing else. The cause of heredity, then, 

 is the memory and intellect of the cell. Memory is the 

 power possessed by the cell to take and keep a record of 

 past events and experiences in such a way that they can 

 be used and referred to in the future when necessary to 

 guide the actions of the individual. Mr. Ribot states : 

 "Some recent authors, among them Dr. Maudsley, attri- 



