46 Foster, Physical Basis of Psychical Events. 



play of external influences on the tissue. But if there be 

 any truth in the views which I have been urging upon you, 

 we cannot transfer this conception to the working of the 

 brain. If in nervous tissue, as I have urged, the influence 

 of the blood supply is wholly subordinate to the influences 

 of incidents, the more so the higher the elements, we 

 must attach but little importance to the play in it of such 

 a direct nutritional automatism. We must regard that 

 psychical spontaneity which we call the will, as, at least in 

 the main, the outcome of complex influences. 



