EXTRACT XXXVIII. B. 



ON THE COMPLETED SYMPATHETiCO-SYSTEMIC 

 NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



THE completed nervous system may be said to embrace 

 its own particular textures as well as, relationally, the 

 whole of the textures to which its terminal fibres are 

 distributed, i.e. the cutaneous and other surfaces in which 

 the sensory nerve terminals terminate, and the musculature 

 in which the motor nerve terminals terminate, inasmuch 

 as these several structures are essential to the production 

 of nervine response to the action of nerve stimuli, and are 

 largely dependent for their growth and sustenance on the 

 direct nutritive influence and pabulum, or plasma, supplied 

 by the central nervous system. In this respect they, the 

 sensory and motor systemic nervatures, are equally and 

 alike outgrowths and continuations of central nerve 

 structures, and are alike necessary for the performance of 

 nerve function. In other words, these are the receptive 

 and delivering instrumentalities through which, and by 

 which, the central nervous system is dominated and 

 directed by the indwelling mind or the non-material 

 entity, inherent, or temporarily resident, in the material 

 organism, and through which it acts and is reacted upon 

 by the external world. Moreover, they represent what 

 may be designated as the central and essential part of our 

 being for the life and service of which all the rest of our 

 material economy is instrumental and subservient, howsoever 

 elaborately constructed and seemingly essentially important 

 its various parts seem to be. These latter represent the 

 building, or material institution, so to speak, into which all 



