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As Was To Be Expected, The Discovery Of The Nervous Apparatus Of The Salivary Glands Immediately Impelled Physiologists To Seek A Similar Apparatus In Other Glands Lying Deeper In The Digestive Canal.

The Digestive Canal Is In Its Task A Complete Chemical Factory. The Raw Material Passes Through A Long Series Of Institutions In Which It Is Subjected To Certain Mechanical And, Mainly, Chemical Processing, And Then, Through Innumerable Side-streets, It Is Brought Into The Depot Of The Body. Aside From This Basic Series Of Institutions, Along Which The Raw Material Moves, There Is A Series Of Lateral Chemical Manufactories, Which Prepare Certain Reagents For The Appropriate Processing Of The Raw Material.

Edible Substances Evoke The Secretion Of Thick, Concentrated Saliva. Why? The Answer, Obviously, Is That This Enables The Mass Of Food To Pass Smoothly Through The Tube Leading From The Mouth Into The Stomach.

I Am Convinced That An Important Stage Of Human Thought Will Have Been Reached When The Physiological And The Psychological, The Objective And The Subjective, Are Actually United, When The Tormenting Conflicts Or Contradictions Between My Consciousness And My Body Will Have Been Factually Resolved Or Discarded.

Mankind Will Possess Incalculable Advantages And Extraordinary Control Over Human Behavior When The Scientific Investigator Will Be Able To Subject His Fellow Men To The Same External Analysis He Would Employ For Any Natural Object, And When The Human Mind Will Contemplate Itself Not From Within But From Without.