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correlating and responsive system, the chromatin or cognitic, 

 that now presides over and in part directs the more sluggish 

 protoplasmic activity. Like the central nervous system there- 

 fore — of greatly more complex significance — whose evolution 

 fortunately we can still trace, step by step, from surface origin 

 to embedded safety, in a fish, an amphibian, even man; and 

 whose still more complex actions and reactions can be explained 

 through the steady flow of cogitic energy ; the entire chromatin 

 system seems to represent a long-drawn exposure to stimulatory 

 environal acts, and resulting intra-molecular energized responses, 

 that ran through millions of years of archsean activity, and 

 that now are stamped on each organism as the structures and 

 functions of the nucleated cell. 



If then at this stage it be granted that a biotic energy tra- 

 verses the protoplasm; that by its activity this substance is 

 stimulated to perform those acts — nutrition, respiration, growth 

 and protoplasmic division — which together constitute the 

 vegetative activities; that by its rather sluggishly irritable 

 response to environal stimuli it is enabled to continue such 

 functions as tolerably distinct phenomena; then in view of 

 the active and delicate irritable response of nucleated or chroni- 

 atin-bearing cells to environal stimuli; in view of the exact 

 manner in which several stimuli are perceived, correlated, 

 summated into a resultant impression, and by proenvironal 

 action responded to; in view also of the greatly more sensitive 

 and restricted endurance by nuclear chromatin of temperature 

 changes when in the active state, as compared with protoplasm, 

 we may now try to secure evidence in favor of the existence 

 of a cognitic energy. 



As to range of temperature endurance for chromatin during 

 the active growing period, this varies from 2° C. to 40° C, 

 though averagely it is between 8° C. and 3o° C. But, as al- 

 ready indicated, seasonal periods of dormancy may gradually 

 be prepared for, when, enclosed within the surrounding proto- 

 plasm, it can survive through wide ranges of temperature tluit 

 extend from — 100° C. to +65° C. Such possil)ilities must 

 always be kept in view, when study of nuclear life phenomena 

 is made. 



