ANIMAL LIFE ASSIMILATION. 



cal Process indicates or pre-figures in outer 

 form so closely just that Process. 



So we have the Directive or Administrative 

 System of the Organism, which directs the 

 directed inwardly and outwardly, and is both 

 along with itself. These three Systems con- 

 stitute the complete process of Assimilation, 

 which keeps pouring the outer world into its 

 mill and working it over till it be transmuted 

 into the mill itself, which becomes thus self- 

 working and self-active, getting the food 

 which enables it to get such food, assimilat- 

 ing the unassimilated till this assimilates 

 also. The stages of self-direction with the 

 corresponding organ may be summarized as 

 follows : 



(a) Self -direction organizing itself in its 

 special organ The Brain, which consist of the 

 Cerebrum, Cerebellum, Medulla. 



(b) Self-direction, reaching out to the rest 

 of the body and controlling it Spinal Cord 

 with two lines embracing the inner and outer 

 (peripheral) organs. 



(c) Self-direction reaching forth to the 

 world outside the organism and ideally get- 

 ting control of that (or assimilating it), as in 

 the sense of vision. This is a return to the 

 previous external world, but not to use it as 

 aliment for the body. 



(a) The Brain is the organized center of 



