418 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



remains, shows the enormous length of time in which he 

 has been engaged in battle with the elements in his strug- 

 gle for existence. The cells like other animals are of 

 different sizes ; they live on and off each other in the same 

 manner as plants, animals and man do ; the larger devour 

 the smaller. The amoeba, which most resembles the man 

 building cell, is among the largest. The organic material 

 we need for food and clothing is manufactured by the cells 

 in plants and animals from other raw material in the soil, 

 water and air. The material generally used is water, 

 salts, carbonic acid and ammonia. The plant, cells can 

 combine carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen to form 

 these substances known as fats, sugar, starch and other 

 carbohydrates. 



The cell uses the heat of the sun to separate the oxy- 

 gen from the carbon and the nitrogen from the hydrogen 

 in the manufacture of sugar, oil, starch and other carbo- 

 hydrates and which may be again reconverted into heat 

 by burning in the animal fire or in the open fire. The 

 only beings in the world that can and know how to do 

 these things, how to manufacture these things we need, 

 are the cells that, build plants. Man is bending his ener- 

 gies in the effort to discover and grasp the secrets from 

 the cell. Think what a change in the world when the 

 secret is discovered, when man can change the crude ele- 

 ments into sugar, starch and oil for food. 



We have made a beginning, as we have already dis- 

 covered how to extract the nitrogen from the air and 

 many other things made by the cell. You see it is the 

 same with the cell as with man, if anything is to be done, 

 the cell must do it. His intelligence must be there to 

 guide and direct matter and force in such a way as to 

 effect certain results. 



If no intelligence is there to guide it, matter will al- 



