CHAPTER 10. 

 CONCLUSIONS. 



We have now investigated and discussed so many 

 points tending to show what plants and animals really 

 are, that I shall close with this chapter, and state what 

 I think should be the natural conclusions from the facts 

 at hand. 



We shall take a general survey of the whole situation 

 again, and see if we are not forced to admit that all plants 

 and animals are built by and for the cells, in precisely 

 the same manner that the structures produced by man are 

 also produced by and for men ; that the cause of man's 

 ability to produce houses, railroads, ships and other struc- 

 tures is the fact that he is intelligent ; that the cell also 

 is so in no less degree. In fact I believe that the cells 

 living singly, like the cells that make weapons to kill 

 their prey at a distance, and many social cells like those 

 who build climbing plants, and also those who build and 

 invent contrivances with which to catch and poison large 

 animals like deer, camels and even lions, have a keener 

 intellect than man. 



We remember how Dixon showed that plant building 

 cells must have not only all of the five senses that we 

 have but also two more which he called psychic and 

 physical sense, because it is a fact that some climbing 

 plants will creep towards the nearest support, and if the 



