328 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



mechanical aspect is the most perfect piece of work that 

 it is possible to imagine. 



"Most of us are willing to accept the facts that we can 

 see, hear, taste, obey the impulses of our wills and think 

 on what has past and what is to come without ever giving 

 a thought as to how it happens that our bodies are so 

 equipped as to enable us to do these things. 



'"The great foresight and preparedness of the German 

 Empire has been the marvel of the age, but it sinks into 

 nothingness when compared with the extraordinary 

 equipment that the human body is possessed with." 



The mind cells of man occupied with other matters 

 have not time to comprehend all the details that are taken 

 care of in the human body. The details are as vast and 

 numerous as those of the largest city or empire, and are 

 based upon the experience and intelligence of the ages 

 while man has only begun to co-operate and organize in 

 a social way. The reason we have never really under- 

 stood causes in nature is our inability to overcome our 

 old prejudiced idea, dished up to us in all our school 

 books, that only man is intelligent. Think of all the 

 complicated actions and movements of a chick ! He is 

 provided with an instrument with which to break his 

 shell, and at once he is able to run about and pick up 

 grains of sand, like his mother. Think how many extra- 

 ordinarily difficult and complicated movements he is able 

 to perform the first time without the slightest previous 

 experience ! He is not only endowed with an inborn dex- 

 terity in motion, but has also a powerful perceptive fac- 

 ulty. Without hesitation he picks up a kernel of grain. 

 To do this he must be able to see and judge correctly and 

 move his head and limbs with great precision. He could 

 learn nothing in the shell. 



We must remember, however, that but a month ago 



