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must provide something on the bottom of your feet or on 

 your hands, to prevent the wearing into the flesh. If you 

 protect the bottom of your feet with sole leather or your 

 hands with gloves, no callous to speak of will grow. The 

 intelligence of man or cell will produce a protecting cover 

 for your feet or hands, but the ground will not do it. 



It is clear that bees, ants, spiders, birds and animals 

 can no more build their houses, provide their food and 

 carry on their various domestic activities without con- 

 scious intelligence than man can build his houses and 

 provide his food without intelligence. The actions of the 

 plant catching an insect and the actions of man catching 

 a rat are identical. The actions in either case are directed 

 by an intelligent designer and builder. 



A plant has neither nerves, muscles or brain, as we un- 

 derstand those terms ; it has, however, the same beings, 

 the cells. The cell is the builder and caretaker, and we 

 find the same purposive and intelligent acts in a plant as 

 we do in an animal. The old notion that only man acts 

 from reason, and that other animals act without reason, 

 is simply foolish. They prove that instinct has arisen 

 from conscious intelligence, by the fact that the acts of 

 walking and playing a piano, etc., are first directed by our 

 conscious intelligence, and after they are learned, they 

 become, as they say, automatic, reflex or instinctive, or 

 habitual. Let them call it what they please, the fact is 

 that our hands and limbs are trained and instructed, and 

 as soon as the muscle cells and nerve cells in charge learn 

 what there is to do, they take care of the work, permitting 

 the cells in charge of our sense organs to do something 

 else more important. 



Every cell of your body has the power to remember 

 and learn, just as the cell in your brain. The honey comb 

 of the bee, the dwellings of the ants, and the nests of the 



