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nervous system, or, in other words, we shall include 

 under the title of the first great nervous system, both 

 of the systems, the intermolecular and intercellular 

 (see Figs. 72, 78). As the unicellular organism cannot 

 live apart from its innervating mechanism and energy, 

 and, in fact, the cell organism and its innervating 

 mechanism and energy are one and indivisible, it 

 becomes necessary to regard every such organism as a 

 nerve unit, consisting, or composed, of living matter 

 and energy, or, in other words, a living form, whether it 

 be in a unicellular, or multicellular, condition. 



No cell, being able to live apart from nerve energy 

 and mechanism, and each cell of a multicellular organism, 

 being regarded as a nerve unit, we must conclude, that 

 each of those cells is a component part of one, or the 

 other, nervous system, and that, therefore, every cell of 

 the human body, apart from the systemic nervous system, 

 by whatever name known to science, is a sympathetic 

 nerve cell, innervated by, and functionally operated from, 

 that system, thus obviating vital inconsistencies and 

 material and dynamic, overlapping, or redundancy. Thus 

 is insured centralisation for functional purposes, or 

 administration, and individual cell freedom, as well as 

 communal control and association of vital effort, in con- 

 certed work, and co-operative intention, and performance. 



The individual sympathetic nerve cell is operated by 

 molecular nervous machinery, while the communal cell 

 groups are operated for communal ends, by inter-cell con- 

 nective processes, developed and left by the original cell 

 mitosis, and adapted for the transmission of nerve impulse, 

 from cell to cell, and from cell group to cell group, the 

 required energy for the higher wants of communal in- 

 nervation being produced, stored and distributed, by the 

 ganglia developed throughout the length and breadth 

 of the sympathetic nervine area, and, perhaps, to some 

 extent, borrowed from the systemic nervous system, and 

 received through its communicating branches, from the 

 associated systemic centres of production and distribution. 



The sympathetic nervature, besides the offices already 

 mentioned as peculiarly its own, fashions and evolves the 

 most highly organised and functioned structure, known 



