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even as the American herds have learned to avoid the 

 deadly loco weed." 



Do you think a scheme like that could have come about 

 and have been produced by chance? Before they could 

 in any way become effective, both of those hooks 

 had to be just so far apart and curved over just so and 

 made of extraordinarily strong material to effect the pur- 

 pose for which they were intended. This grappling ma- 

 chine would have to be complete and perfect in every 

 way before it could be effective. It seems almost un- 

 reasonable to think that a plant could figure out this 

 scheme with which to be able to catch, kill and eat cattle, 

 sheep and camels, but such are the facts. This plant is 

 a stationary abode of a colony of cells. The cattle, 

 sheep and man are movable abodes of cell colonies. The 

 cells of a stationary colony should have just as much 

 time and opportunity to figure out schemes and inven- 

 tions with which to protect themselves or obtain their 

 food as the cells of the movable colonies. When the 

 matter is considered rightly, we should expect to find 

 precisely the same inventive genius, skill and intelligence 

 in one place as the other. 



Before closing this chapter I shall quote the following 

 by Ernest Haeckel from his works on Embryology. It 

 is a little long but it is a good comparison of the human 

 cell with other cells living singly and as separate lives. 

 He says : 



"Though the amoeba is therefore only a simple cell, it 

 shows itself capable of performing all the functions of a 

 many celled organism. It moves itself by creeping, it 

 feels, it feeds, it reproduces its kind. Some species of 

 amoeba are visible to the naked eye, but the greater num- 

 ber are microscopic. Our reasons for regarding the 

 amoeba as the particular one celled organism, the phylo- 



