CHAP. XIII. 



CONCLUSION. 



I SHALL now briefly recapitulate some of the con- 

 clusions that have been deduced from the experi- 

 ments and reasonings detailed in the previous 

 chapters. Sufl&cient evidence I think has beeii brought 

 forward, shewing, that the actions which take place 

 in the living body, in plants as well as in animals, 

 viz. secretion, cibsorption, and nutrition, by whatever 

 term they are designated, whether vital or organic, 

 are accompanied with the manifestation of current 

 force, and therefore present the marked characteristics 

 of polarity; and consequently, the force associated 

 with these actions, whether it be called organic-ioice, 

 or ceii-force, or ^erm-force, or by any other term, 

 must of necessity be a polak force. It will be as well 

 perhaps to avoid using the term vital force in these 

 discussions, inasmuch as it is too general in its 

 application, embracing as it does the whole class 

 of vital phenomena, including those connected 

 with the mind. But to the term organic I see 

 no objection. 



The class of actions which present the greatest 

 resemblfince to those which take place in the animal 

 body, as well as in plants, are undoubtedly those of 



