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Choice by Chance—See [Devil, The, Chosen].
Choice, Everything Depends on—See [Experience, Value of].
CHOICE IN PRIMITIVE ORGANISMS
Headly, in his book on “Life and Evolution,” instances our old friend, the ameba, which we have since childhood all agreed to be one of the most primitive forms of life. This microscopic creature, a unicellular morsel of protoplasm, undoubtedly has the power of choice. It exercises this power whenever it eats. Diatoms enveloped in flint are its favorite food. When an ameba comes in contact with one of these minute vegetables it swallows it through an aperture—a mouth—which it conveniently makes at whichever point an aperture is required. But when, on the other hand, the ameba comes in contact with a small grain of flint he leaves it severely alone; he does not treat it as he does the flinty envelop of the diatom.
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Choice, Right—See [Way, The Right].
CHOICE UNFORESEEN
Men for high positions are not always chosen because of previous preeminence, but frequently through circumstances of situations or from expediency: