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integrated activity consciously carried out we may either shatter the entire organism or develop unnatural phases of our life or else we may be able to perfect the organisms under the skilful operation of the cortical and the supracortical centres, induced by the psychonic system and the self. Small lesions of the brain do not affect the rate of learning for the entire mass of tissue in the brain functions as a regulated organism and therefore the importance of the cortical and the supracortical areas of the brain whilst they reveal the entire mechanism of the intelligent life, are by themselves controlled by the ideational sphere which cannot be explained on the principle of neural - memory in association.
The Problem of Emotion.
It is a well known fact in psychology that all emotion is explainable according to the theory of James and Lange who hold that physical attitudes reveal emotion and are emotion. The theory of Dr. Cannon shows that adrenal stimulation is the most important physiological occurrence in emotion and that leads to visceral function stopping and cardiac muscles being enervated. Mr. Lashley holds "that the problem of emotion is still in confusion that one can draw no conclusion with confidence, but the accumulation of evidence upon the variability of expressive reactions and the repeated failures to find any consistent correlations between bodily changes and either exciting situations or reported subjective states lends little support to the visceral theory." He continues "the weight of evidence, I believe favours the view that in emotion, in all persistence of attitudes, in all serial activity, there are continuously maintained central processes which, if they become intense, may irradiate to motor centres, speech and the like. The pattern of radiation varies from subject to subject according to chance variations in the excitability of the motor or vegetative nervous systems and the peripheral activities are not an essential condition for the maintenance of the central processes" The maintenance of the central processes throughout any emotion is what is advanced by Mr. K. S. Lashley as a more commendable theory than the visceral. The adrenal function automatically increases the heart beat, stops all vegetative functions and in all emotion it is these adrenals that cause the highest amount of tension in the physical condition; reflection on the contrary is what gradually inhibits all the activities of the adrenals. The control exercised over the adrenal