416 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



support is shifted several feet from its former position, 

 the vine will within a few hours change its course, in the 

 new direction. This it will do even if the view of the 

 support is obscured and concealed by ridges of earth. 



How do we account for the "homing instinct" in the 

 pigeons and the bee? We say we do not understand it; 

 we give it a name, call it instinct, act wise, and say that 

 those instinctive acts were at one time performed with 

 a conscious intelligence and were repeated until they 

 became automatic and instinctive. This method of ex- 

 plaining something not understood by giving it a name, 

 leads only to confusion. If these plants and pigeons have 

 a sense and intellect that we do not have nor do not un- 

 derstand, why not admit it? If instinctive acts are in- 

 telligent, which fact they now admit, why do they not 

 admit also that they are intelligent whether produced by 

 plant, animal or man? 



We have not the ability to penetrate into the future 

 and the unknown, but we should apply common sense to 

 what we do know. The idea that there is nothing in life 

 but matter and force I do not believe has been proven, but 

 is yet apparently without foundation. We find matter 

 and force in the organic world ; they follow fixed laws. 

 In the organic or living world, we find matter, force and 

 intelligence. If the living things defy the natural forces, 

 and act differently and only for themselves, we must 

 admit the fact that life or living things are directed by 

 an intelligent force. As far as we have explored the ac- 

 tions of natural forces from the molecule to the distant 

 solar systems, matter and force obey fixed laws. In 

 life we find all living beings from the cell to man moving 

 contrary to the fixed laws of matter and force. They 

 control and direct matter and force for their own pur- 

 pose. The fixed laws of gravitation cause all water in 



