448 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



all cleared away when you understand life correctly. 

 How can a swallow fly the first time it makes the attempt 

 without having ever had any practice or instruction in 

 the art? It is clear that the cells who will do the flying 

 are the same individuals who have made the swallow. 

 They have designed and put him together, piece by piece, 

 for a specific purpose, and every part of him was placed 

 in the correct place and made of the right material. Every 

 individual cell that makes up the swallow is in his place, 

 and knows what he is there for and has charge of the 

 particular business in which he is skilled. There is no 

 difference whatever in the various purposive activities of 

 the cells building a swallow and those of man building an 

 air ship. Both are built for the same purpose and both 

 fly in their first attempt without any previous experience 

 or instruction. It is commonly said that the swallow 

 flies from instinct, then why not say that the air ship also 

 flies from instinct. Yet this would be ridiculous ; every 

 one knows that it is the builders who set these machines 

 which they have produced into motion. There is no dis- 

 tinction, in fact, between intelligent and what they call 

 reflex, automatic, habitual or instinctive acts. All these 

 are intelligent, purposive acts. 



There is, in fact, no difference between a voluntary and 

 an involuntary act, both are intelligent and purposive ; 

 for instance, I can wink my eye voluntarily and invol- 

 untarily. If voluntarily, the act is directed by my sense 

 cells in charge of consciousness ; if involuntarily, the act 

 is directed by the nerve cell having that particular busi- 

 ness in charge. Why is the same act any more conscious 

 and intelligent if directed by one cell than by the other? 

 If it is an intelligent act in one case, ,it must necessarily 

 also be so in the other. It has been shown that in civilized 

 man there is a bunch of cells near the side of the head 



