OP LIFE. 27 



Q. Is the term sympathetic nerve, as it is commonly 

 used, a correct one? 



#. It is not. The ganglions give rise to what is called 

 the sympathetic nerve, not the nerve to the ganglions. 



OP THE PROPERTIES OP ANIMATED BEINGS. 



Q. How are these properties divided? 



#. Into the properties of life, and those of texture. 



1. Vital Properties. 



Q. What are these? 



*ft. Sensibility and contractility. 



Q. How is sensibility divided? 



#. Into animal and organic sensibility. 



Q. What is the great distinction between organic and 

 animal sensibility? 



#. In the first, the organ exhibits the faculty of re- 

 ceiving an impression, without transmitting it to a com- 

 mon centre^ animal sensibility implies not only the re- 

 ception of an organic impression, but the transmission of 

 that impression to a common centre, and that centre is the 

 brain. This transmission and cerebral impression consti- 

 tute the difference between organic and animal sensibility. 



Q. What phenomena are supported by organic sensi- 

 bility? 



/?. Digestion, circulation, secretion, exhalation, absorp- 

 tion, nutrition, and others. This sensibility is common 

 to the plant, the zoophyte, and the most perfect animal. 



Q. What phenomena depend on animal sensibility? 



Jl. Sensation, perception, volition, intellect, pleasure, 



