The Inner Organs of Expression 1 5 3 



delicate adjustments, arouse a sense of fear, 

 and then depress or disarrange the motor 

 organs by striking them in the rear. The 

 only defence against the evils of centrally 

 excited impressions lies in discipline. Where 

 there is no natural defence one must be built 

 up. The discipline of the inner organs of 

 expression is mental association ; that of the 

 outer organs is in the motor response of 

 manual training. 



Centrally excited emotions are an evil unless 

 held in check by one of these means. The 

 sensory environment extends so far beyond 

 the real environment that no natural adjust- 

 ment is possible to much of this realm. A 

 vague pseudo-environment exists of which the 

 mental effect is fear and the bodily effect is 

 nervousness. The only emotion worth any- 

 thing is the emotion due to the surplus 

 energy generated by some bodily mechanism. 

 Centrally excited emotions often come from 

 a pseudo-environment that is not vital, and 

 in their activity they break the discipline on 

 which all upbuilding processes depend. 



