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functions, on the unconscious ; but this dependence is not 

 reciprocal. And the lower functions are subordinate to the 

 higher ones, which work through them ; the unconscious 

 functions are subordinate to the conscious, and the inorganic 

 functions to the organic; and this subordination never 

 becomes reciprocal. 



It is to be observed that the depepdence of functions Depend- 

 one on the other is necessary and constant ; the conscious ^^^ :'^ sub- 

 functions are always and necessarily dependent on the ordination 

 unconscious ones, and life is always dependent on matter. 

 But the subordination of functions one to the other is 

 neither necessary nor constant ; the mind often loses its 

 control of the body, and life often loses its control of matter. 

 When the control of the higher functions over the lower, 

 and the subordination of the lower to the higher, are 

 weakened, the result is disease ; when they are destroyed, 

 the result is death, 



