. Cell intelligence; the cause of growth, heredity and instinctive actions, illustrating that the cell is a conscious, intelligent being, and, by reason thereof, plans and builds all plants and animals in the same manner that man constructs houses, railroads and other structures . to them. Spencer, like Darwin andothers, attempt to show that life is based on chemical andmechanical action. They fail, however, to explain themystery of growth, heredity and instinctive action. Toshow you how hard they have tried to understand it andhow they have twisted the language to say something thatwould soun
. Cell intelligence; the cause of growth, heredity and instinctive actions, illustrating that the cell is a conscious, intelligent being, and, by reason thereof, plans and builds all plants and animals in the same manner that man constructs houses, railroads and other structures . to them. Spencer, like Darwin andothers, attempt to show that life is based on chemical andmechanical action. They fail, however, to explain themystery of growth, heredity and instinctive action. Toshow you how hard they have tried to understand it andhow they have twisted the language to say something thatwould sound like a cause I shall here quote some passages 18 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION from Spencer, the great exponent of the Darwiniantheory. He puts the question: How can this cell con-struct a body? Does every germ contain a model of thecomplete animal or is each germ a miniature form ofsame? No, all we can say is that the living particles com-posing one of these fragments have the innate tendencyto arrange themselves into the shape of the organism towhich they belong. He seems to see no other reason forthe actions of the cell in building a plant except that theyhave innate tendency to do so. He would explain itjust as well by frankly stating that he did not Fig. 2.—Amoeba highly magnified—Central portion, cell body,n. nucleus; c. v. bacuole; p. Pseudopodia, hands or arms extended. The question that will be discussed by me is not whatintelligence and vital force are, but whether or not thisintelligence that directs the cell is similar to and the sameas that which directs intelligent man. Many scientiststoday are studying questions and theories which existonly in the imagination of the person who is studyingthem. We shall take, for instance, the subject of helio-tropism of living organisms. This word is used to denote INTRODUCTORY 19 the property in some plants or animals which compelsthem to go towards the light. I have examined this sub-ject and I am certai
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