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centralised in that enormously developed and complex 

 structure, the brain, cord, and subsidiary nerve centres. 



In this dual nervine regime it becomes more and more 

 observable that a subtle and beneficent plan runs through 

 the evolutional process involved in the genesis and 

 development of the structures concerned, whereby the 

 maintenance of life is secured, and the purposes of that 

 life made attainable ; thus, the maintenance of life is 

 secured by the existence of an automatically acting and 

 systemically independent nervature, by which the lapse 

 of vital function is obviated and the continuity of the 

 vital processes or life maintained, while the conscious or 

 voluntary and higher needs of life are met and secured by 

 a systemic nervature absolutely adapted for the purpose, 

 and capable besides of reaching towards and enabling its 

 possessors to realise the existence of a universe external 

 to itself and extending into infinity. 



