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PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY. 225
cold as long as the generation of warmth, a normal will,
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If we are forced to the con
can be induced by it." P. 1 :
viction that there must be a determining principle a will,
in every vital action, by which the development suited to
the whole organism is occasioned, and each metamorphosis
of the parts conditioned, in harmony with the whole indi
viduality, and likewise that there is a something capable
of being determined and developed," &c. &c. P. 11: "With
respect to individual life, the element which determines,
the organic will, if it is to rest satisfied, must be able to
attain what it wants from that which has to be determined.
This occurs even when the vital movements are over
excited, as in inflammation : something new is formed, the
noxious element is expelled ; new plastic materials are
meanwhile conveyed through the arteries, more venous
blood is carried off, until the process of inflammation is
finished and the organic will satisfied. It is however
possible to excite this will to such a degree, as to make
satisfaction impossible. This exciting cause (or stimulus)
either acts directly upon the particular organ (poison, con
tagion) or it affects the whole life ; and this life then begins
to make the most strenuous efforts to rid itself of the
noxious element or to modify the disposition of the organic
will, and provokes critical vital activity in particular
parts (inflammations) or yields to the unappeased will"-
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P. 12 : The
insatiable will acts destructively upon the
organism unless either (a) the whole life, in its efforts to
attain unity (tendency to adapt means to end), produces
other activities requiring satisfaction (crises et lyses) which
hold that will in check called decisive (crises complete?)
when quite successful; crises incomplete, when only partially
so or (ft) some other stimulus (medicine) produces another
will which represses the diseased one. If we place this in
one and the same category with the will of which we have
become conscious through our own representations, and
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