EXTRACT LIV. B. 



ON SOME DEDUCTIONS FROM THE FOREGOING 

 STUDIES IN THEIR BROAD AND GENERAL BEAR- 

 INGS : NUTRITION, INNERVATION, ETC. 



IT is a truism to say that in the human body we have to 

 deal with only two entities, viz. energy and matter, but 

 energy and matter in transcendental relationships to each 

 other, the result being the development, production, or 

 evolution of an organic entity sui generis, and altogether 

 unique in the known realms of nature. 



Energy and matter, whether they be found ultimately 

 resolvable and interchangeable entities or not, exist 

 sufficiently apart from each other here as to necessitate 

 their individual recognition as co-partners in the produc- 

 tion of the human being, and, for that part of it, of every 

 organic unit throughout the universe, hence, we think, 

 that it may not be altogether unprofitable if we study 

 them individually, and as related genetic elements and 

 co-efficients in the production and evolution of human 

 life, and as the determining agents in the maintenance of 

 that life, as well as in the initiation of the diseases to which 

 the human body is liable, and which usually terminate its 

 duration. 



As to matter, it may be said that, even before so-called 

 scientific times, it has been recognised as the basis of 

 organism, as well as the substance of the soil and the 

 matrix of the " everlasting hills. " Since the advent of 

 science, however, it has had a specific meaning, or signi- 

 fication, assigned to it, which has raised it to the position 

 of one of the partners in all the material or tangible 



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