COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



are quite subordinated to those higher modes, 

 such as thought and emotion, which are made 

 possible by the great extent to which the cer- 

 ebrum and cerebellum carry the compound- 

 ing of impressions received in the medulla. In 

 order to realize with vividness how completely 

 human life has come to mean the higher psy- 

 chical life, let us try to imagine what life would 

 be without the cerebrum and cerebellum. Yet 

 from the biological point of view these systems 

 of ganglia, though nearly, are not quite, abso- 

 lutely essential to human life — since the less 

 complex acts and impressions are still coordi- 

 nated after they have been destroyed by disease, 

 and since infants, born without any brain save 

 the medulla and basal ganglia, have been known 

 to live for a short time. Such a deprivation of 

 the higher relational activities naturally seems 

 to us almost equivalent to deprivation of life. 



We may now more thoroughly appreciate 

 the force of the distinction between the pro- 

 vinces of biology and of psychology, which was 

 stated in the earlier part of this chapter. We 

 see that while life, physical and psychical, is the 

 continuous adjustment of inner to outer rela- 

 tions, nevertheless in the lowest forms of life, 

 unaccompanied by mind, the outer relations to 

 which adjustment is made are exceedingly gen- 

 eral, and the correspondence is simple, direct, 

 and homogeneous. But as we pass to forms 

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