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dissipation of matter and the integration of motion. 

 This occurs when a solid is converted into a gas. The 

 organic body, dead, is in process of change, from the 

 form of a solid, to that of a gas. Hence we call death 

 a change of form. In this change nothing is lost. 

 When the change is complete the weight of the result- 

 ing gases and residuum is the same as that of the body 

 in the solid form. 



THE PSYCHICAL PHENOMENA. The psychical phenom- 

 ena occur through a peculiar or differentiated, structure 

 of the physical, the nervous system; and the resulting 

 consciousness, or knowledge, or a wareness, or immediate 

 experience, seems to be a condition, whose real nature 

 psychologists are now studying, and about which, there 

 is some difference of opinion. 



The nervous system arises, like the other organs, 

 through a division of labor, and takes upon itself, not a 

 different function, in kind, but an increased degree of 

 the functions of the tissues of the body. 



The process of the physical is termed physiological, 

 and the psychical, psychological. But this distinction 

 is only one of ideal classification, for the purpose of 

 study, and may not have any real basis in the natural 

 phenomena themselves. For the material structure of 

 the Ego includes, not only the bones, muscles, and vital 

 organs ; but also the nervous structure as well, through, 

 or by means of which, all the psychical phenomena 

 occur. This nervous structure is only differentiated 

 protoplasm, of which the whole body is formed. There- 

 fore psychology is frequently termed a branch of 

 physiology. Jacques Loeb, in his "Physiology of the 

 Brain." contends that, in function, there is no differ- 

 ence between muscular, and nervous structure, except 

 in facility of the movement of its component molecules. 



