420 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



nor muscles can think and invent traps with which to 

 catch insects, showing the most extraordinary skill and 

 inventive genius. 



As soon as the insect gets far enough inside the trap, 

 the signal to slam the trap shut is given and the insect 

 is caught. The plant cell then cuts him up into micro- 

 scopic particles with an acid combination called gastric 

 juice and the cells eat the insect. 



In the plant called Sundew, the trap is also set and 

 baited. The tentacles of this plant all work together, 

 pushing the helpless insect towards the center where it 

 is treated in a similar manner. It is digested with a liquid 

 similar to the gastric juice of man. If anything touches 

 those traps which is not good to eat, they get rid of it in 

 the best way they can and pay no attention to it. 



These actions are in every detail the same as those of 

 intelligent man would be under similar circumstances. 

 The individual directing the actions of that part of the 

 plant composing the fly-trap show the* highest degree of 

 skill. The fly-trap is no chance product. It is a carefully 

 considered, well-ordered scheme and arrangement, cal- 

 culated and designed to effect a certain purpose. The 

 forces at work here catching the foxy insects are no blind 

 chance forces, they are intelligently controlled and di- 

 rected. 



We have investigated the effects of all the material 

 forces, such as gravity, electricity, chemical action, light, 

 heat, cold, wind, water, etc., and we have found that life 

 is not any of these forces, but that the cell is affected by 

 these forces in precisely the same manner as man, ani- 

 mals or plants. It is of course only what we should ex- 

 pect, as all plants and animals are colonies of cells, and 

 the cell could not be affected by these forces any differ- 

 ently in one place than in another. 



