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ventions and productions. What difference is there be- 

 tween the mechanical skill required to build a heart with 

 which to pump or push the blood through the system, and 

 that required to build the fly-trap. It was a bright idea 

 of the plant to provide these prickles, in order to stop the 

 ape from stealing his property. It is, however, equally 

 intelligent to invent the eye, more so than the specs and 

 telescope invented by man to aid his instrument in seeing 

 smaller or larger objects for which it was not made. The 

 cell builds instruments we call ears, with which to catch 

 the vibrations of the air; man builds ear trumpets to aid 

 him in hearing better. All these are instruments and 

 productions of art, and can only be produced by a mind 

 or intellect. The cause must be mind or intellect, which 

 can direct and mould the blind forces of nature into those 

 things desired by the builder. 



The purpose of this book is not to explain the origin of 

 the cell and its high organization and what the mind and 

 intellect in the cell really are. In this discussion it makes 

 no difference what you call this quality or ability to mould 

 and direct crude matter and blind natural forces. Call 

 it soul, vital force, nature, God or intellect, it makes no 

 difference, for it is in any case the cause of all living con- 

 structions. In man it is called intellect; so we may as 

 well call it that. As in the cell, it is the intellect in man 

 that is the cause of his structures, like houses, railroads 

 and ships. What difference can there be in the acts of 

 the cell making a crystalline lens for the eye and the act 

 of man making lenses? What difference can there be in 

 the act of the cells in the chicken gizzard, using stones 

 to grind grain, and the analogous act of man grinding 

 grain with mill stones? The instruments used and the 

 purpose are the same. 



Is there any difference between the industry of the cell 



