. Australian Garden and Field. 360 THE GARDEN AND FIELD. January, 1914 XKe Farm & C. A. SMITH & CO. 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 kn
. Australian Garden and Field. 360 THE GARDEN AND FIELD. January, 1914 XKe Farm & C. A. SMITH & CO. 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. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Adelaide
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