376 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



for and to die for. The cell is not an individualist. He 

 has developed both moral and national consciousness. 

 He is not interested in his own welfare, except in so far as 

 it is the welfare of the body. He is in a similar relation to 

 nature as the bee worker is to the hive, himself nothing, 

 the body or cell community everything. 



I repeat, the religion of the cell is similar to that of the 

 Japanese and the most admired quality of the Japanese 

 is his patriotism. Mr. Huxley describes the sponge as a 

 large city and states : "The sponge represents a kind of 

 sub-aqueous city where the people are arranged about 

 the streets and roads in such manner that each can easily 

 appropriate its food from the water as it passes along." 



As a matter of fact, every animal or plant is a city of 

 some sort, sub-aqueous, aerial or terrestrial and occupied 

 by the cells who have built it. Every such city is built 

 on a plan or with a design or purpose to take care of the 

 millions of inhabitants who occupy and maintain it. These 

 cities or abodes when examined are found to be con- 

 structed with a purpose in view or a design to meet a 

 condition or existence of some particular kind. They are 

 found to be constructed with wonderful skill and design, 

 to meet the most severe and complicated conditions in 

 life. 



Upon close investigation it is found that the cells who 

 build the city we call the sponge are just as intelligent 

 as the cells that build the fish, animal or man. They 

 understand how to build the house on the bottom of the 

 sea of such material, lime and fiber, that the other animals 

 cannot make any use of it and so will not eat them. They 

 understand how to cause a continuous stream of water to 

 flow through their protected habitation, and in this stream 

 of water, they pick up their food and other building ma- 

 terial they may need. The young sponge starts out in 



