CONCLUSIONS 431 



Certain physicists, chemists and physiologists claim of 

 course that there is no such thing as life or intelligence 

 in the universe ; that there is nothing but matter and 

 force ; that force goes always with matter ; that matter 

 under certain conditions could and would assume life; 

 and that no intelligence is required to guide matter. It 

 is, in my opinion, useless to make any such statements 

 at this time. Whether matter could have got started 

 some time in the past million years, and developed finally 

 into the intelligent being we call the cell, which builds 

 and directs the actions of man, we do not know. But 

 from the evidence at hand it would appear that life, the 

 intelligent force, as distinguished from the blind forces 

 of nature, is a separate force in the universe. A clear line 

 can be drawn between the dead and the living. Intelli- 

 gence must have existed before structure. The idea 

 must first exist how to build and what to build. From 

 the facts before us it would appear that a separate intelli- 

 gent force may exist unseen in the universe, separate 

 from matter. The living intelligent cells, like man, con- 

 trol and direct matter and are masters of it. The cell that 

 builds man, and the cell that builds the tree that lives a 

 thousand years, look alike and are alike ; the only differ- 

 ence in them is their record of past events, their experi- 

 ence and knowledge. This same is true of animals and 

 man. The general appearance of a man who knows how 

 to build a skyscraper and that of the man who knows 

 how to build a hut, is the same ; the only difference in 

 them is in their knowledge, in the experiences stored up 

 in their memories. Every species of cell can only know 

 how to build the structure from which he came. 



The fact that everything is first produced before it is 

 used shows clearly that some one is building for a pur- 

 pose. At the right time milk will be made ready as fond 



