ON BIOGENESIS 59 



this last series of relationships secured and safeguarded that 

 the systemic nervature, as it becomes developed, absolutely 

 dovetails itself into and with its non-neurosystemically 

 related neighbouring structures, that it affects and is 

 affected by them through a more or less delicate, 

 thin veil of specially prepared and interjected fluid 

 or lymph, so as to be passable by the most delicate 

 nerve impulse, but not, or sparingly so, by other modes 

 of energy. 



Thus the systemic nervous system in all its parts is 

 separated from its material surroundings and functionally 

 related, sympathetically innervated, textures so absolutely 

 that, for independent functional purposes, it literally 

 becomes " the inner man," or, more strictly, the abode of 

 " the inner man," and holds sway over the whole con- 

 sciousness and contingent destinies of that inner indi- 

 viduality which is guided by the light of reason or is led 

 astray by unconsidered impulse or passive obedience to 

 the lower instincts and survivals of neuro-sympathetic 

 agency and domination. 



The material biogenesis of man may, therefore, be 

 regarded as threefold, viz. uni-cellular, multi-cellular, and 

 neuro-systemic, each stage of which is characterised by 

 the biogenic influence of a distinct form of innervation, in 

 virtue of which the original life impulse is passed on from 

 stage to stage of the individual existence, and finally 

 yielded up or shed in dynamic continuity and indestruc- 

 tibility, by its dissolving material matrix and " erstwhile 

 dwelling-place." 



The systemic nervous system, when all has been pre- 

 pared for its introduction into or evolution from the 

 sympathetically innervated textures by a further biogenetic 

 process, becomes the kernel or habitat for " the eternally 

 living principle" of man, to become surrounded by 

 textural enfoldings and outworks of organised materials 

 so complete as to afford as untrammelled an opportunity 

 for complete evolution as a material matrix of the most 

 highly organised order known in this world can allow 

 It is, therefore, not to be wondered at if this matrix of 

 transcendentally organised nervine tissue is surrounded 

 by accessory structures and fluid environments of an 



