384 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



that egg cell, owing to division of labor. This differentia- 

 tion of the cells or this division of labor originally arose 

 in tribal history from causes similar to the division of 

 labor in the civilized states of men. Afterwards it ap- 

 pears in the germ history and by that time it has been 

 made over to heredity and is merely repeated in accord- 

 ance with the fundamental law of biogeny." 



The reader will notice that Mr. Haeckel attempts to 

 make it plain that the cell has developed from his single 

 separate savage life to the high state of civilization and 

 organization that we now find him, in plants and animals 

 in precisely the same manner as the human race. No one 

 can conceive how the cell or insect could have developed 

 their social institution without intelligence of the same 

 nature as man. It is simply foolish to try to evade plain 

 common sense and attempt to bewilder us with meaning- 

 less phrases. Our ordinary experience and common 

 sense is bound to bring us to these natural conclusions 

 because they stand out as the simple naked truths and 

 facts. 



Every plant or animal starts from one single cell, which 

 multiplies and as the body grows and the organs are 

 completed in size and structure, we have these groups of 

 cells known as organs or cells of the brain, cells of the 

 liver, cells of the skin, cells of the muscles, of the bone, 

 etc. We see that the cells of the body are of the same 

 family, but by reason of their different occupations they 

 have become a little different in general appearance in 

 just the same manner as the children of a family, who 

 would occupy different positions in life, would by virtue 

 of their difference in occupation look a little different. If 

 one was a book-keeper, one a butcher, one a farmer, one a 

 soldier and one a preacher, they would all look a little 

 different in general appearance. Every animal will be- 



