BODY CONTROL AND HABIT FORMATION 349 



body machines, we 

 get up in the morn 

 ing, automatically 

 wash, clean our 

 teeth, dress, go to 

 the toilet, get our 

 breakfast, walk to 

 school, even per 

 form such compli 

 cated processes as 

 that of writing, 

 without thinking 

 about or directing 

 the machine. In 

 these respects we 

 have become crea 

 tures of habit. 

 Certain acts which 

 once we might 

 have learned con 

 sciously, have be 

 come automatic. 



But once at 

 school, if we are 

 really making good 

 in our work in the 

 classroom, we be 

 gin a higher con 

 trol of our bodily 

 functions. Auto 

 matic control acts 

 no longer, and sen 

 sation is not the 

 only guide for we now begin to make conscious choice; we weigh 

 this matter against another, in short, we think. 



Parts of the Nervous System. This wonderful self -directive 

 apparatus placed within us, which is in part under control of our 



The central nervous system. 



