326 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



impressions from the senses. The center of sight is in 

 the occipital part of the brain, that for hearing in the 

 rear, two-thirds of the first and second temporal convolu- 

 tions. 



"The Senses : If currents from the various sensory 

 nerves did not flow into the brain, we should get no 

 knowledge of the outside world. The brain gets de- 

 spatches from the optic, olfactory, tactile, gustatory and 

 other nerves. These despatches are the data from which 

 we get our knowledge of the world." 



Now just consider for a moment what this means! 

 What conscious intelligence and foresight is required to 

 be able to effect a social organization like this ! Man has 

 been able to effect a similar civilization only in the last 

 few centuries. The cell has understood the power of 

 organization for a million years before it was conceived 

 by the mind of man ; still man as an individual pretends 

 to be more intelligent than the cell, his maker, like a 

 submarine trying to be more intelligent than the man 

 who put it together and directs its actions, or like a house 

 knowing more than the architect that put it up. 



Th. Ribot states that instinct and intelligence are one 

 and the same thing except that "Instinct is unconscious 

 intelligence," but Mr. Ribot does not understand what 

 this unconscious intelligence can be. There are several 

 books written about the unconscious intelligence and no 

 one seems to know what nor where it is. It is perfectly 

 plain that the acts we call instinctive and reflex are those 

 performed and directed by those nerve cells of the body 

 whose specific function it is to direct and perform those 

 acts. A child can suck and make noises ; he has had no 

 previous experience or training in this matter, but he 

 knows how. His mouth and throat were made for these 

 specific functions. The makers are in charge, directing 



