ANIMAL LIFE ASSIMILATION. 



we can look back and observe that Skin, Bones 

 and Muscles form a whole with its process hi 

 conflict with the external world. They are 

 the defenders, upholders and providers of the 

 citadel of the individual which must be pro- 

 tected and nourished from the outside realm 

 of Nature. Still such action is not automatic 

 and involuntary like a great part of the Or- 

 ganism inwardly directed. Next we must as- 

 cend to the fountain of this new directive 

 energy. 



3. The Organism Self -directed. We have 

 now reached the control and centralizing ac- 

 tivity of the total Organism the Nervous 

 System, with Brain and Spinal Cord. Hith- 

 erto there has appeared a multiplicity of or- 

 gans which we have sought to co-ordinate in 

 our thought; but now they are to be co-ordi- 

 nated by one of themselves; that is, all the 

 different organs are to be unified, and this un- 

 ification is to be the work of an organ. From 

 the center the lines or nerves run out into 

 every minute part, to the corporeal periphery, 

 and then they return to the center ; thus a vast 

 number of circuits going and coming are in- 

 terwoven through the body. The Nervous 

 System is a System of Cycles separating from 

 and returning to a common point which con- 

 trols them all, and through them the other 

 parts of the Organism, 



