378 MAN --AN ADAPTIVE MECHANISM 



damage as serious as that produced by infections or 

 crushing blows will constitute a powerful protection 

 to man. The knowledge that these activations not 

 only decrease the power of the individual to do his work, 

 but ultimately cause numerous diseases as well, will 

 result automatically in arousing the instinct of self- 

 preservation, which will surround the individual with 

 a protecting circle, through which anger, jealousy, 

 grief, and worry cannot penetrate, just as the zone of 

 local anesthesia in the anociated surgical operation is 

 an impenetrable barrier between the brain and the 

 knife, making the surgical operation shockless. 



In the texture and form of his bones and joints ; in 

 the structure and distribution of his muscles ; in the 

 covering skin and the padding fat ; in the nature and 

 distribution of his nails and hair ; in the structure and 

 equipment of the mouth, the stomach and the intes- 

 tines, of the kidneys, ureter and bladder and of the 

 organs for procreation and respiration ; in the composi- 

 tion and circulation of the blood ; in the distribution 

 of pain ceptors, and of the defense mechanisms against 

 dust, debris and insects, against cold and heat, and 

 against infection and bleeding ; in the mechanisms for 

 appreciating sound and light, color and form ; in the 

 mechanisms for taste and for smell, for maintaining an 

 even body temperature, for producing muscular action 

 and for expressing the emotions; in the nature and 

 incidence of laughter and weeping; in the chemical 

 defense against bacterial invasion and against the 

 poisons of pregnancy and auto-intoxication ; in the 

 mechanisms of conception, of pregnancy and of birth ; 

 in the fabrication of thought ; in the mechanisms of 



