540 Richard J, Anderson, Remarks on Impulses Cerebral and Spinal. 



in the fluids circulating in it, or a stimulus outside, electrical, light, 

 chemical or heat, of which we have examples, we may say, at 

 least, that if one neuro-muscular system can produce ether strain 

 which would enable other neuro-muscular systems to perform their 

 work more easily on encountering it, there would be an attempt 

 to use it. One finds "the mystery of life in every bud, a mystery 

 magic in everything unJcnown^\ "The fields, the air, the grove are 

 haunted, and all that age has disenchanted." "Science is the illumi- 

 nator which, if in its methods it is positive, yet in its operations 

 outstrips romance in her most lofty flights." (Leighton.) 



