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states of consciousness, and activity is in the 

 main transferred to other centres, so that less 

 damage is done to the organism by the vigor of 

 their activity. In this way complex organisms 

 are developed that comply with the demands for 

 rhythm and harmony, and also raise memory 

 into a dominant psychic trait. 



I have in the foregoing pages presented the 

 consequences that flow from a few simple 

 assumptions; first, a difference between the 

 germ cell and somatic cells by which the latter 

 become structure and the former exhibit respon- 

 siveness ; second, a relation between movement 

 and memory so that one structure can excite 

 both memory and movement simply by a change 

 in the direction of the nervous current ; and 

 finally there is the assumption that conscious- 

 ness is confined to katabolic epochs. As 

 these are intermittent, two centres of activity 

 are necessary to form a continuous conscious- 

 ness. A rhythm of action follows, resulting 

 in the growth of complex organisms with all 

 those diverse elements and conditions which 

 puzzle the observer. 



Many simple facts harmonize with these 



