126 OF VITAL MOTION. 



CHAPTER V. 



OF THE NEKVOUS INFLUENCE AS AN AGENT 

 IN VITAL MOVEMENT. 



In the preceding chapters, it has been found that 

 nervous influence, and the other forces of organization 

 agree in their mode of action, and that all these vital 

 and physico-vital agencies co-operate harmoniously 

 with the several varieties of extra-organic force, 

 and hence we may infer, with very sufficient reason, 

 that nervous influence is nothing more than a modifi- 

 cation of cosmical force. 



In another work,* it has been shown that the 

 nervous system is formed upon the same archetypal 

 plan as the other parts of the body, and even of the 

 body itself, and that the same plan is extended to 

 what are called inanimate bodies ; and in this unity 

 of the material framework of things there is another 



* See "Proteus," p. 65, &c. 



