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ion/ and nerrous systems, 128. Composition and nature 

 of (he autonomic system, !..",>. Experimental evidence of 

 connection between the adrenal gl-ands and the nervous sys- 

 tem, 1.11. Clinical evidence of adrenal-nervous connection, 

 133. Sum mar if of present state of knowledge in this field, 

 137. 



XIX. THE ORGANISMAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INTERNAL SECRETORY 



SYSTEM 141 



Genera] inability of elementalism to interpret the phenom- 

 ena, 1'fl. Cri/!<iue of the view that internal secretions are 

 '''formatire stuff's," l.j?. The meta/thysical and logical weak- 

 ness of the riew, 1/jX. The form of metaphysical absolutism 

 involved, lol. Confusion of theory of organisms and 

 theory of the knowledge of organism*. 1~>2. An illustra- 

 tion of neglect of fact by elemenlalist theory, 1~>7. A peculiar 

 elementalist objection to the organic whole, 13S. 



XX. NEURAL IXTEGRATIOX 161 



Distinction, between developmental and functional integra- 

 tion, 161. Neural and not psychical phenomena the subject 

 of this chapter, 161. The authors indebtedness to Sher- 

 ring ton's work, 16.'. The fundamentally of cellular inte- 

 gration in the re-flex-arc, 163. The integration of reflex- 

 arcx. }>;s. The spreading and compounding of reflexes, 171. 

 Antagonistic re-flexes in skeletal muscle groups finally in- 

 tegral ire, // '/. The antagonisms within the autonomic sys- 

 tem finally integratire, 178. Concluding remarks on the sig- 

 nificance of neural integration for the organismal standpoint, 

 1X3. 



XXI. IMPLICATIONS OF THE TROPISTIC AXD SEGMENTAL THEORIES OF 



XEHVE ACTION ......... 185 



Neglect of the works of Sherrington and Cannon by Jacques 

 Loeb, 18o. The real importance of Loeb's conception of the 

 nerrous system, 7<s'/\ The organismal character of tropisms 

 partly recognized by Loeb. 188. The organismal character 

 of the segmental theory of the nerrous system, 190. Critique 

 of the elementalist attempt to interpret tropic-tic and seg- 

 mental theories of the function of the nerrous system, 19S. 

 The bearing of this critique on "analysis" in Biological 



