| 1883.] The Polar Organization of Animals, 491 
the motor energies received from the outer world through the 
nerve channels. There these motor influences are combined and 
; ined, in some method which is yet a mystery, until the highly 
; complex relations of the mental organism are produced. Thus 
= the conscious mind is the final outcome and the highest product 
= of the combination of motor energies, and the brain the govern- 
ing organ through which the movements of the body are con- 
trolled, 
=- But the nutritive function has likewise its organic pole, in which 
the final and highest product of its exercise is laid up. In “ Or- 
ganic Physics ” this question has been considered. The building 
upand repair of the solid tissues of the body is only one of the 
tesults of the nutritive process. A second result we conceive to 
4 be the formation of the concreted portions of the liquid tissues— 
z ‘the white corpuscles or leucocytes. And the ultimate result of 
this process is the aggregation of the leucocytes into more and 
more complex corpuscles, until, in their final and most complex 
2 Stage, they are excreted by the reproductive glands as the germs 
a of new organisms. The formation of such a germ is the final 
_ Sutcome of nutrition. In, this germ the organic product has 
reached its highest stage of synthesis. Chemical assimilation and 
} Molecular complexity have attained their ultimate, and the ger- 
eal cells exist as epitomes of the whole body. From this point 
arig the reproductive organs form the nutritive pole of the 
r Thus as the conscious mind is the highest product of the com- 
, bination of motor energies, so the ovum or spermatozoon is the 
. te product of the nutritive energies. The latter repre- 
ae the utmost reach of organic synthesis, and the former the 
~ of analysis, Nutrition, with its various results, is the 
“the employed in the one ; oxidation, the agency employed in 
ve Thus the two opposite processes to which life is due, 
l Nutrition-and oxidation, has each its polar center, these poles being 
Senasa in all the higher animals, at the opposite extremi- 
ieee body. We might, with some reason, proceed to con- 
: oo result of the action of these organic poles. The 
TR "erm ceases to be a part of the body which produces it, 
CAK 
‘ ) ; temporarily connected with it for further nutrition and 
7 development, We may say the same thing of the men- 
H we accept the belief entertained by the great mass of 
