Identifier: cellintelligence00quev (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Quevli, Nels
Subjects: Cells
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn., Colwell Press
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r thing in each particular case. Considerfor a moment the complex and skilled actions of the cellsthat make up your mouth, tongue and throat, how theyguide the direction of the food in one way and the direc-tion of the air in the other; how dexterously the tongueis able to push the food around and between the teeth,hardly ever getting caught; how the muscles of yourtongue and mouth form themselves into shapes to causesounds of all kinds. Those actions are as truly intelligentas the actions of your hand in painting the most artisticpicture, but no more so than the skillful acts of plants incatching insects. The ear is an instrument that, if keptup in proper condition, will detect the vibrations of theair but in order to be able to hear the ear drum mustalways be strung up to a certain degree of tension; if notkept just so, you cannot hear. Who looks after these de-tails^ We find in every place in the body that every 456 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION I. Chimpanzee 2. Gorilla.
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3 ^^^g- 4. Negro. Fig. 52.—Man and monkeys.—Haeckel. CONCLUSIONS 457 particular thing to be done and detail to be looked afteris in charge of some cell or crowd of cells. A large brain or head does not necessarily contain any-more intelligence than a small one. Take, for instance,the brain of the ant, which contains but a few cells. Dar-win himself states, It is-the most marvelous atom ofmatter in the world, and it has been clearly establishedthat the ant is possessed of a very high degree of intelli-gence. For instance, all writers seem to agree that theystore food for the winter, they live a social life like man;they build complicated nests and places to live in; theycarry out the principle of division of labor; they adaptthemselves to circumstances; they capture and employslaves; they confine in captivity Aphides, insects whichsecrete a kind of honey which the ant uses as food. Theyhave perfect sense organs and memory, so they canrecognize and remember each other. They are emot

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