3G OF LIFE, 



OF ORGANIC LIFE. 



Q. What organ in this system is first developed? 



t#. The heart, the punctum saliens. 



Q. What is the difference between foetal organic and 

 independent organic life? 



.#. The difference is great as to the number of func- 

 tions in operation. For instance, in the foetus there is 

 little assimilation, because the blood comes prepared from 

 the mother; there is neither digestion nor respiration; 

 there is no excretion. In after life all these functions are 

 in play. In foetal organic life there is rapid assimilation, 

 but slow and slight decomposition. 



Q. On what does the perfect operation of organic life 

 depend? 



ttf. Not on education, nor on habit, nor on symmetri- 

 cal arrangement as in animal life, but on original structure 

 or organization. 



Q. Where is the moral character seated ? 



Jl. The passions constituting this, are seated in organic 

 life! 



Q. In natural death, which life, animal or organic, dies first? 



A. Animal life does. The senses give way; the skin 

 becomes tough, and hard, and being deprived of much of 

 its vascularity, it is the seat of obscure touch. As sensa- 

 tion is blunted, the mental faculties decline; that declen- 

 sion weakens volition; the voluntary muscles are disused; 

 thus the organs of animal life die in detail. Organic life 

 fails in the same gradual manner; digestion, secretion and 

 absorption decline pr cease; the capillary circulation from 

 the loss of tonicity is embarrassed; the general circulation 

 ceases, and the heart ultimately dies. Such is the natural 

 death of the. old man. 



