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increased by tools of different kinds for digging, striking, 

 etc. The cell builds teeth with which to grind the food. 

 Man invented another scheme on a larger scale for the 

 same purpose, the mill. The cell made eyes with which 

 to see. Man extended the eyes' efficiency so as to see far- 

 ther and smaller objects, by the invention of microscope 

 and telescope. The cell builds organs of locomotion to 

 move over the ground. Man invents better and quicker 

 methods by the use of the railroad and automobile. 



We know how and why we build and so we should 

 know how and why the cell builds because we are one and 

 the same. In our memory we have a record of past 

 events and experiences. This record constitutes what 

 we know it is our knowledge and our intellect. From 

 this past record of experiences we form judgments, which 

 determine our actions. Every being must act from ex- 

 perience and not otherwise. The knowledge and expe- 

 rience of the human cell is only that of building the 

 human individual and in the memory of the germ cell 

 there is a record of the experiences of building and guid- 

 ing the actions of countless individuals in the past to- 

 gether with the record of new and further experience 

 gathered from the life of the individual from which it 

 came. That all the cells of our body have a memory sim- 

 ilar to our thinking cells is clearly proven by the fact that 

 we can teach our limbs to perform acts like playing a 

 piano, walking, etc., and when they have learned to per- 

 form these acts they will perform them without troubling 

 or demanding any attention from our thinking cells or 

 consciousness. By consciousness I mean those cells in 

 charge of our sense organs, which we also call us, or our- 

 selves. Every cell must be a conscious and intelligent 

 being as well in one place of the body as in the other. If 

 certain actions are performed often enough, so as to be 



