. 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 . ith sharp barbed spines, hundreds of themthat break off inside the wound. The fierce struggle forexistence that has been going on in the sea for ages hasproduced these wonderful individuals, in the same man-ner that the struggle for place and power that is nowgoing on in the war between the English and the Ger-mans i
. 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 . ith sharp barbed spines, hundreds of themthat break off inside the wound. The fierce struggle forexistence that has been going on in the sea for ages hasproduced these wonderful individuals, in the same man-ner that the struggle for place and power that is nowgoing on in the war between the English and the Ger-mans is causing inventions of many kinds, andweapons and engines of destruction of different char-acters. We must keep in mind that the builders of all 130 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION these individuals are the cells, just as the builders of allthe different structures now used in war in their strugglefor national existence, are the human individuals. Thestructures produced by cells or cell communities are allon the plan intended to resist attacks by hungry enemies;take, for instance, the common turtle with its armor plateof bone, which in every way resembles a of living beings working together live inside ofthis moving fort we call the Fig. 22.—Skeleton of Turtle. Glyptodon clavipcs. What difference can there be in the intelligence or skillrequired in building a submarine by human beings andthe building of a fish by the cells? In every case theremust be a preconceived plan, a purpose to capture andescape, to do this or that. They are made with an endand purpose in view. The time will evidently come whenevery important battle will be fought either in the air orunder water. The submarine now must have eyes inorder to see where to go and so as not to run into nets!Inside are the individuals who run it and take care of it THE LIVING STRUCTURES 131 precisely in the same manner that the cells run and takecare of the individual they inhabit, be
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