384 BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 



understood, and the principle of sympathetico-systemic 

 nervine reciprocity, more fully appreciated, that a long 

 step forward in scientific medicine, will have been taken, 

 and a way opened up to cope with the complicated 

 processes of disease, by which our powers for good will 

 be largely increased. 



We may regard it as axiomatic, that every medical 

 appeal must be made to the nervous system, and that 

 the appeal must be made to that system, in both its 

 unal, and dual, capacities, in order that it should not 

 miss being successful. It must, also, be at all times 

 remembered, that the key to every vital position, structural 

 and functional, is to be found within the nervous system, 

 in either its material, or dynamic, condition, or both, and 

 that the dual control of all nervine action, must ever be 

 present in the mind, in seeking a practical solution of any 

 problem, involving the nervous system and, it may be, 

 asked, pertinently, what disease does not involve the 

 nervous system, directly, or indirectly ? 



The distinction, and the reciprocal relationships, of the 

 two nervous systems, suggest the conviction, that a most 

 profound biological deduction, is warranted, therefore, viz. 

 that there are two organisms within the human personality 

 innervated by the sympathetic, and systemic, nervatures, 

 respectively, and that man is made up of a material, and 

 dynamic, being, living, and acting, consciously, and un- 

 consciously, by virtue of this dual innervation, which is 

 resolvable into its separate parts, by influences, inimical 

 to the continuance of the dual existence, or life. 



Death, therefore, constitutes the natural termination to 

 this dual existence, releasing the dynamic, from the 

 material, being, and allowing their entering into new 

 combinations, to continue the cycle of change, and 

 evolution, in endless progression, and absolute order, 

 along the lines of continuity of force, and matter, 

 respectively. Death in reality, therefore, can only be 

 considered, as the biological continuance of, the dynamic 

 or vital, principle, in combination with new evolutionary 

 factors, of a metaphysical order, and the physical return, 

 of the material components of the organism to the matrix, 

 whence they were originally derived. 



