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or superficial as well as the inside or visceral 

 parts of the Organism with the Brain which, 

 as self-directed, is the seat of all other direc- 

 tion. At this point then comes specially the 

 relation of the Organism to the outside world. 



(c) This relation (say of man's body to its 

 environment) varies much, and hence differ- 

 entiates itself variously in the Organism, 

 whose differences in this regard have long 

 been known as the Five Senses, which have 

 seemingly evolved from the simple primal 

 cell-sense, one as yet and not very pro- 

 nounced, though certainly manifested. So the 

 nerve-ends of the bodily periphery become 

 specialized in the course of long evolution for 

 adjusting the Organism to external condi- 

 tions. Again 'rises the question as to what 

 ultimately works this transformation. In 

 general it would seem that the Nerves are 

 most susceptible to this evolutionary power, 

 being the chief means of vitalizing into the 

 highest forms of Life the lower and even the 

 non-vital forms. It is Psyche again overcom- 

 ing the vast separation of Physis and restor- 

 ing the ultimate One. 



This field we may call Sensuous Assimila- 

 tion, in which the outer world is taken up into 

 the central Brain through the Five Senses 

 (sometimes more are given). This furnishes 

 knowledge or ideal Assimilation, not ali- 



