i66 Human Personality. 



through the thousand sensory nerves extending to the 

 surfaces of the bodj', is transmitted along a sheathed nerve 

 fiber and reaches one or more of these large cells of the 

 cortex, intelligence of such a sensation is at once distrib- 

 uted by means of the 'sentient network to a hundred 

 neighbor cells, and from them is diffused over the entire 

 brain, which thus receives tidings as if it were a single 

 huge cell, instead of an aggregation of two hundred mil- 

 lions of cells, each a distinct living creature. 



By means of this sentient bond of cell to cell, afforded 

 by the protoplasmic networks, many millions of cell lives 

 are blended in one common life, having one common sense. 

 By means of this bond, too, a higher life of greater 

 compass than that of the single cell is rendered possible. 

 For by it thought, which is the busingss-of compariBg^, 

 what one cell or tract of cells knows with what another 

 celLknowSj_bfiginsZand/Both cells are thereby made wiser 



4a-,e xperience. Eeasoa^-4s-_SSt ^P'> imagipatioa^ mad &- 



j)0ssible^; and, in the end, theJiumaaJoteLlect-is-dexeloped 

 from what was at first thejrimar y sentience o f-iftdrndrtai-" 



_cells. 



For it is not here inte nded tQ..advance Jhe_.dQctrine that 



JhaJmnaan -intellect is of no higher__iihara.eter than the 

 sentience-^ of —a- brain. celL__By_ mean s of this extended 

 organization of cells, too, something more than a quantitEP 

 tive aiVd"^cumulative result is attainedT ^Human intelli- 

 gencFdiffei's, not only in_c[uantitg^but in degree, from 



