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THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 



January, 1914 



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The Intelligence of Nature. 



It is eirolism which makes man 

 imag-inc himself to be the only 

 animal endowed with the capacity 

 of thinkincr. Horses think and 

 reason, so do dogs, so, without 

 doubt, do monkevs, 1-iiS, elephants, 

 and manv other animals. The plain 

 truth is that there is a world of 

 intelligence all through Nature, 

 through the animal world as well 

 as through the i)lant world. It is 

 an intelligence proceeding from the 

 creative force which created the 

 world. Some of us have some 

 knowledge of the laws of heredity 

 discovered by Mendel, the old 

 monk who worked out the laws of 

 hereditv in variations of characters; 

 in plants. He did it by cross- 

 breeding i)eas, and found that there 

 was the most extraordinary and 

 imiform sequence of results. With- 



in recent j-ears others have done a 

 great deal of research work along 

 the course of Mendel's laws. They 

 find them true and accurate, as 

 nea-rlv as anything in Nature is ac- 

 curate. From crossing distinct 

 races of plants, it is known about 

 what variation to expect and 

 w"hat the propo'rtion of the i various 

 t3-pes of di\'ergence will be. That 

 is to say, when you cross red peas 

 with white, you get speckled peas, 

 and when you plant the speckled 

 peas, you get a certain number of 

 pure red and a certain number of 

 speckled peas, and one can predict 

 with a comparative degree of cer- 

 tainty what these numbers will be. 

 Well, the same law is found to 

 hold good through practically all 

 the vegetable world, and since 

 Slendel's time it has been dis- 

 covered that it holds good also in 

 the animal world. Plants and 



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animals are \erv different organ- 

 isms. No one can truly say that 

 an animal inherits anv trait from 

 a plant, or the plant anything 

 from an animal, and yet they are 

 governed by the same ,laws. They 

 are di\ided into sexes ; fertilization 

 is performed in a similar manner, 

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— A Subtle Intelligence. — 



One is disposed to incline more 

 and more to the belief that the 

 world is a living thing permeated 

 with a subtle intelligence which 

 runs through ever)^ animate thing. 

 The grass leaps up under the 

 spring sunHght, sends its creeping 

 stems this way and that, spying 

 out the land, planting outposts 

 and seeking by intrigue and en- 

 trancements to conquer. The llow- 

 ers spring up and put their souls 

 in their faces, so that it seems as 

 though it were not altogether ma- 

 terial, and for the. pwrpose of pro- 

 pagation that this excess of 

 gaiety and beauty is put forward. 

 The trees have their iudividuality, 

 their likes and dislikes, their rules 

 of procedure, their calendars which 

 tell them when to leaf, when to 

 bloom, and when to put on their; 

 gorgeous colours in the autumn. 

 Throughout the winter they stand, 

 thed'r \ital forces withdrawn to 

 their protecting bodies, their buds 

 swathed in scales, and sometimes 

 woollv coats, asleep, grimlv facing 

 the winter gales, iready at tHe""right 

 moment to blaze forth with greeai 

 to a world reborn. The water 

 lilies lloat their blooms on the sur- 

 face of the water, and afterwards 

 draw their seed pods down to the 

 mud below. Birds come to us 

 across thousands of miles of for- 

 est, ])lain, and sea. They build, 

 guard their nests and young, and 

 sing. Do they sing only because 

 they need to sing foir purposes of 

 I)rocrieation ? Did you ever hear 

 the robin singing in the tree top 



