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pull, and also something to pull them in turn 

 a still higher directive agency. 



The Muscles connect the Skin with the 

 Bones locally, and are protected by it from 

 the oxygen of the air which is to reach them 

 through the lungs and blood. The Skin thus 

 prevents the Muscles from taking fire on the 

 outside and then burning up without the or- 

 der of the central authority, which is brain 

 and nerve. So the skin is the excluding 

 agency, limiting not only to form but to func- 

 tion, turning the organic process inward, 

 shutting off the process outward. 



Through the Muscles the Organism has 

 now gotten a directive energy, which is dis- 

 tributed to the organs of the body, but which 

 especially lays hold of the Bones and works 

 them in accord with a purpose. The Muscles 

 are the laborers who indeed perform the task, 

 but who have to receive their commands from 

 a higher authority, with its system of messen- 

 gers going and returning. Therein the Mus- 

 cles pre-suppose a new directive center, which 

 must likewise have its seat in an organ. 



At this point, then, the Organism directed 

 outwardly in Assimilation comes to its limit, 

 and organically through the nerves of the 

 Muscles passes over into a new field. It is 

 seen to be under direct control of a superior 

 power which must next be sought. Meanwhile 



