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BULLETIN OP THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. 



§2. The View of Experimental Science. — Whatever be the 

 true philosophy of the inter-relations of mind and body, 

 modern experimental science is quite assured in the view that 

 they are inseparably connected in their activities. The doc- 

 trine that "every psychosis is accompanied by a neurosis" has 

 been adequately demonstrated for many people by the results 

 of experimentation in physiological and psychological labora- 

 tories, 1 as well as in the laboratory of Nature, pure and sim- 

 ple, wherein she reveals to us through pathological disturb- 

 ances the normal order of things ; although, of course, complete 

 and final evidence upon this subject is for the present at least 

 quite beyond the skill of science to obtain. But it seems rea- 

 sonably certain for one thing (the only one that concerns us 

 here), that all mental activity, and physical as well, involves 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Figs. 1 and 2.— Representations of typical nerve cells (Donaldson, Growth of the 

 Brain, pp. 143 and 145) designed especially to show the elements concerned in 

 the reception of stimuli, d; in the generation and storage of potential nervous 

 force, N; and finally in the transmission of kinetic nerve energy, n. 



the expenditure of energy generated in the nuclei of neural 

 cells. The architecture of the cell, in the absence of more 

 suggestive experimental data, would of itself lead one to this 



1 For the opinions of investigators as Mosso, Lombard, Maggiora, Kraeplin 

 and others, see the Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 13-17 ; Scripture, 

 The New Psychology, chap. XVI : and Educational Review, Vol. XV, p. 246 et 

 seq. 



