CONCLUSIONS 419 



ways follow fixed laws. Air will stay air and water will 

 remain water. The intelligence of man is necessary to 

 control, guide, direct and arrange the blind forces and 

 dead matter to effect the results desired, as in the manu- 

 facturing of nitrogen, or extracting it from the air. It 

 is also equally necessary to have the same guiding in- 

 telligence in the production of this same material by the 

 cell. If you furnish the hen building cells with lime, they 

 will cover the eggs with a shell. The cell can not pro- 

 duce anything by magic any more than man. The mate- 

 rial must be at hand, but the material alone will produce 

 nothing. Some intelligent being must arrange or direct 

 the arrangement of the raw materials, before we get the 

 production of the structures. 



The forces of magnetism, electricity, light, heat, and 

 motion follow fixed laws. The cell takes advantage of 

 these laws just as man does and by so doing produces 

 the food and building material which he needs. The cell 

 is no chance product, he is a living conscious being. 

 Watch him under the microscope ; watch his movements 

 in the water, how he darts about in search for food, and 

 how he regulates his speed, so as to avoid colliding with 

 other cells; watch him as he chooses this food 'and rejects 

 the other, and you will be forced to admit that his actions 

 are voluntary and those of an intelligent being. 



The cell has the same work to perform as man. He 

 must provide himself with food and cover. He must take 

 in food and dispose of waste matter. He must exercise 

 all the bodily functions of man, such as respiration, cir- 

 culation, movement and excretion. 



We delude ourselves with the idea that intelligence 

 can only exist where there is a brain and nervous system. 

 We must remember that man, animal or plant is only a 

 colony of cells and that plants with neither brain, nerves 



