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and force just a's man does, and as a master of force and 

 matter, he compels them to serve him. The cell colonies 

 we call electric fish gather and store electricity in pre- 

 cisely the same manner as man. The cells of the oyster 

 build strong houses of the microscopic lime and mineral 

 matter that they gather in the water and in order to pro- 

 duce the required hardness they are compelled to employ 

 the aid of chemistry, like man. 



There is precisely the same distinction between a cell 

 and other microscopic dead matter as there is between a 

 man and a stone. The cell is a thinking, conscious, in- 

 telligent being like man. How can he be anything else 

 when we consider the fact that we are but a colony of 

 these beings? There is no cause for dividing life into 

 animal and vegetable. There are but two kingdoms, the 

 living and the dead. The vegetable and animal start 

 alike and are all built by cells. The cell colonies produce 

 those structures that will be necessary to their existence 

 and which come within their knowledge and experience, 

 as man does. 



The cells manifest all the functions of the highest life 

 like eating, choosing, digesting, secreting, working, ex- 

 creting and generating. Vegetable building cells do just 

 the same thing as animal building cells as far as the func- 

 tions of life are concerned. Their knowledge and expe- 

 rience and ability to produce things are of course differ- 

 ent, as in animals and man. Every cell accommodates 

 and adapts himself to the work to be done, as man does. 

 When not subject to pressure the cell is round, but when 

 subject to pressure he takes on such forms as allow the 

 most freedom and give the most efficiency in accomplish- 

 ing his work. Thus we see him everywhere manifesting 

 the same reason and actions as man. The male cell of 

 animals in his preparation to meet, and in his effort to 



