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rium, and its structure cannot have the stability 

 on which depends the attainment of fixed ends. 

 Growth in the outer body makes folds, and 

 they, as incipient ovaries, give off germs which 

 in confinement become nerves. The new nerves, 

 when organized with those already existing, 

 rouse new emotions, and these again reduce 

 the outer body to a mass; and then new 

 growths begin a new cycle that ends in a 

 fresh reduction of the outer body to a lower 

 form of organism. 



It would harmonize with my thought if we 

 should consider the sympathetic system of 

 nerves, with its automatic action, as a part 

 of the outer body a remnant of the many 

 struggles that it has had with the inner body 

 and its central nervous system. It is this 

 vasomotor system that suffers the most in 

 the expression of the emotions, and there 

 occur most of the reductions which they cause. 

 In it we almost have a body without a mind, 

 and in the inner organism we, to a like de- 

 gree, have a mind without a body. The outer 

 body attains mass, but loses the specialization 

 which creates form, while the inner body re- 



