NUTRITION, INNERVATION, ETC. 567 



the modes of nervine energy being exercised in the uni- 

 cellular organism in molecular proportions, and in the 

 multi-cellular organism in cellular proportions. In the 

 former, or uni-cellular organism, nutrition, therefore, 

 begins with and consists in, the neuro-dynamic conveyance 

 of the material elements of the structureless cell proto- 

 plasm to the nascent structural developmental areas, and 

 its disposition there in the proper molecular and atomic 

 vacuoles reserved for its reception, through the reticular 

 pseudo-fibro-vasculature, which gradually appears through- 

 out the body of the cell. In the multi-cellular organism, 

 while the uni-cellular, circulatory, and neuro-dynamic 

 machinery is retained and continued in active employment 

 in maintaining the vital integrity of its individual cells, an 

 inter-cellular, material, and dynamic machinery is evolved 

 and maintained as each mitotic division of the growing 

 cell community takes place, which ultimately assumes the 

 proportions and extent of a nervous system, and which, in 

 the higher animal world, is recognised as the sympathetic 

 nervous system. 



This description of nutrition involves the idea that the 

 developmental and nutritive pabulum exists in non-detectable 

 infra-spaces within the apparently homogeneous matrix of the 

 cell body, which, on the application of the necessary dis- 

 tributive dynamic agency, takes its place in the appropriate 

 intra-cellulo-organic spaces, to be renewed by nutrition as it 

 becomes worn out and displaced ; as well as the further 

 idea, that within the cells of the multi-cell organism, 

 individually and collectively, there exists the pabulum 

 required for the development, growth, and nutrition of 

 that organism, both in its cellular and non-cellular, or 

 fibral, textures and nascent organs. Moreover, it seems 

 justifiable to conclude from these premises that intra-cell 

 spaces of uni-cell bodies, and the cell cavities of multi-cell 

 bodies, are but receptacles, or cisterns, of nutritive plasma, 

 which can be drawn from, as the exigencies of nutrition 

 require and determine, by the proper nervine detective or 

 selective agency, and dynamic impulse, along the neuro- 

 fibral pathways, or inter-cell processes, whose patency or 

 porosity secures the necessary vasculature for inter-cell 

 material change and exchange. The raison d'etre of the 



