406 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OP EVOLUTION 



in acid, would you not also become irritable, would you 

 not begin to think it was time to cover yourself with a 

 protecting membrane? That is just what the amoeba 

 does. He understands how to make and carry a material 

 along with him, with which he is able to cover his body 

 and protect himself when necessary under certain dan- 

 gerous circumstances like this. To be in position and to 

 be able to provide for such emergencies shows an extra- 

 ordinary degree of intellect and foresight. A material 

 must be discovered and made and carried ready at hand, 

 which when exposed to the air immediately hardens into 

 a protective shell. An animal who can conceive the idea, 

 discover and make the substance and use it when neces- 

 sary, as does the amoeba, certainly shows skill and fore- 

 sight of a high degree. We have no reason to doubt his 

 intelligence, for as Mr. Haeckel himself states, he looks 

 and acts in every way like the animals that do the think- 

 ing for us, so if Mr. Haeckel is intelligent, so are the cells. 

 When the cells build a plant or animal they proceed 

 in the same manner as man in building a structure. They 

 build all the parts with a view of combining them all into 

 one whole. The parts are made to work in combination 

 with every other part. The organs of the body are in that 

 regard like the skillful combinations found in the arts and 

 industries of man. The diversity of functions and divi- 

 sion of labor begin with the production of organs in order 

 to take care of the different wants of the cell colony. To 

 satisfy these wants certain labor and work must be done 

 and each organ is a delegation to do certain and special 

 kinds of labor. The cells working together in the in- 

 dividual can build organs to a certain extent and purpose 

 with the material at hand and man can extend or increase 

 the use of these organs with other material obtained from 

 the outside, as for instance, the efficiency of the hand is 



