Its Composite and Dissoluble Nature. 167 



cell intelligence. By specialization and organization, a 

 higher plane of intelligence is reached. Biological 

 synthesis would lead us tn infer that by means of organi- 

 zation, higher and higher planes of sentience and intelli- 

 gence have been successively attained — a long sei ies of 

 such ascending steps — since first the simple elements of 

 life began to seek expression in terrestrial matter. Ex- 

 tended organization and the specializatioJi of .^arts to 

 digtinG ^uses h ave, led to— those_more^ complicated actions- 

 and— i'eactiaus jnthe plastlg,_43rQtoplasmic s ubstance ^the 

 eijliretv of which jasjie-iu-aJiigheiJdnd of intelligience; 

 higher because vastly more of form and of experience is 

 included in the brain as a whole than in the cell. 



Briefly, we wish to convey the idea that, according to 

 the present biological conception, the human intellect is 

 something more than the associated sentiences of the two 

 hundred millions, or more, of cells contained in the brain ; 

 that it is an extended development of those sentiences to 

 a higher grade of intelligence, rendered possible by the 

 interaction and intercommunication of the cells. 



This association and this organization have been largely 

 due to the vi^ealth of protoplasmic branches and fibrils 

 which the brain cells have thrown out, in order to come 

 into touch and sentient contact with each other. Once 

 touching, by whatever agency contact is brought about, 

 something of the nature of "current" from cell to cell 

 throughout the whole brain appears to be set up and 



