460 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



the other hand those who claim that some divine power 

 somewhere not only made all living things but also guides 

 their actions in life. I can see no foundation for such a 

 claim. There may be a higher power in charge of the 

 universe, or there may be intelligence in the atoms or par- 

 ticles of dead matter, but we do not know, we can only 

 guess. It seems just as likely, if not more so, that there is 

 a separate intelligent and invisible something in the uni- 

 verse, which is able to direct, organize and form matter 

 and force to serve its own purpose, but we do not yet 

 know. 



Phrase-making and abuse of language in order to mys- 

 tify, cover up ignorance or pretend to be clever has been 

 the common practice of late and it has lead to nothing 

 but confusion. Since the microscope discovered for us 

 that a plant or animal was a colony made up of still 

 smaller animals, it seems singular to me that we should 

 pay no attention to that fact, as a cause of the plants' ex- 

 istence, but still insist and claim that either some other 

 being somewhere in the universe is the cause and builder 

 of the plant or else that the dead matter itself is the cause. 

 After we have discovered that man builds skyscrapers 

 and -ships, why should we argue that the bricks and 

 stones alone build themselves into a skyscraper and why 

 should others ^gain argue that a divine something some- 

 where in the universe builds the skyscraper? 



We have discovered the builder of plants and animals ; 

 we know who he is and what he looks like. Our first 

 investigation, it seems to me, should be whether or not 

 he is an intelligent being. If he is found to be such, then 

 we know how and in what way he is able to build and 

 produce the plants and animals that we see. I believe 

 that we can truthfully say from the evidence at hand that 

 the cell is a conscious and intelligent being like ourselves. 



