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are characteristic exponents of natural differences 

 of thought, feeling, and action. Mind does not 

 merely affect the body, it permeates its constitu- 

 tion and is delineate in the map of it. On the 

 other hand, there is not a function of any organ 

 of the body which does not enter into the con- 

 stitution of mind ; the reproductive glandular 

 function notably revolutionizes its thoughts and 

 feelings during adolescence ; the defective thyroid 

 maims -and lames it ; an atom or two going 

 astray in metabolism precipitates it from the 

 height of joyous vigour to the depths of im- 

 potent despair. No purposive movement could 

 ever be made but as the outward discharge of 

 mind incorporate in ht structure ; for the cleverest 

 man in the world could not button a button, even 

 stir a step, had he not learnt the art by repeated 

 practise — had not, in fact, patiently organized 

 intelligence in proportional, that is ratio-rial, struc- 

 ture which thereafter discharges itself automatic- 

 ally. When the intelligent act, once learnt and 

 fixed, is done unconsciously exactly as it is done 

 consciously, it is absurd to say that there is mind 

 in the one act and not in the other. The organic 

 process is simply one of doing consciously in the 

 individual lifetime that which has been done 

 gradually in the formation of animal and human 

 instincts by evolutional adaptation through the 

 ages. In both cases the result is structurally con- 

 solidated reason, mind statical. 



The intimate and essential unity of mind and 



