408 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



a prominent part in the records of the individual's past 

 experience or memory, those actions will likely reappear 

 in the new individual. We do not understand how the 

 cell is able to take and keep a record of past events for 

 future use (which power we call memory) but we know 

 this to be a fact. From this fact of memory, the power 

 to use the records of the past to guide the actions in the 

 future, we are able to clearly understand the cause of 

 heredity, evolution and progress. Why does a kernel of 

 corn grow into a corn stalk and not into a sunflower? 

 Just for the same reason that a carpenter will build houses 

 and a watchmaker will build watches, and just for the 

 same reason that a muskrat will build huts in which to 

 live over the water while the squirrel will build his nest 

 in the tree. Stored in the memory is a record of past ex- 

 periences of each of those individuals. The corn building 

 cell has had no experience in building the sun flower nor 

 has the squirrel had any experience in building houses 

 over the water, nor has the carpenter had any experience 

 in building watches. 



Many meaningless words have been invented, for in- 

 stance, such as geotropic and heliotropic, which are used 

 to express certain properties of plants ; that is to say, the 

 roots of plants are said to be geotropic because they grow 

 downward into the earth, while the stem and branches 

 are said to be heliotropic because they grow upward into 

 the sunlight. Now the fact is, there are no such things. 

 The root is not compelled to grow down into the earth 

 nor the stem to grow up towards the sunlight by reason 

 of anything except the own free will of the cells or build- 

 ers. The cells building the roots are working for a pur- 

 pose and that is to get down into the ground to get the 

 minerals for building material and the cells building the 

 stem must get up into the sunlight, to get the heat which 



