60 METAPHYSICS 



order unknown, or at any rate unsurpassed in design, 

 throughout the entire anatomical domain of " adaptation 

 of means to ends," or in the whole physiological array of 

 specialised structure and function displayed within the 

 human body. 



Man, " to all intents and purposes," thus becomes a 

 persistent, living, dynamic entity, whose biogenesis is 

 effected by a threefold series of materio-dynamic changes, 

 beginning with his duo-uni-cellular detachment from his 

 parental sources, and terminating with his dynamic release 

 from material incorporation by dissolution of his biogenetic 

 bonds and corporeal entanglements, and, therefore, whether 

 he wills, wishes, or believes it or not, his continued existence 

 is absolutely certain, and he may rely upon it with the 

 utmost scientific warranty and confidence as a clearly 

 demonstrated and undeniable materio-dynamic problem 

 and biogenetic truth. 



Concluding that this generalisation is scientifically 

 tenable, we at once perceive that the most important 

 structure in the human body is, therefore, necessarily, the 

 systemic nervous system, and recognise that all the organ- 

 ised and structurally related material parts outside that 

 system are but the scaffolding and buttressing erected by 

 a specific process of biogenic activity to contain it, and 

 afford it a means whereby its " indwelling " spirit, soul, 

 or conscious and reasoning essence can affect, and be 

 affected by, its environment, and so have its destiny 

 determined and secured, and its passage from the past 

 to the present, and from the present to the future, evolved 

 in perfect and continuous sequence ; the materio-dynamic 

 or temporary merging in, and continuing as, the 

 purely dynamic or eternal, by the influence and through 

 the reign of undeviating, ever existent, and controlling 

 law. 



Materialism and spiritualism, so called, thus arrive at 

 the same conclusion as to man's immortality and eternal 

 destiny, and it will surely be unworthy of either, or both, 

 therefore, should they persist in standing aloof from each 

 other, and in endeavouring, single-handed, to perform 

 their duties to the human race, in ignorance of the great 

 services they are capable of mutually rendering each other, 



