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CHAPTER IX

BALANCE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

If you can procure a sheet of foolscap paper, lay it open before you. Write at the top of the left-hand page a big C; at top of the right-hand page a big D.

Under C copy out the following table, with as wide a space between the numbers as the length of the page will allow for:—

C

1. Physical digestive power; power to get force from eating visible things,

2. The Time-Sense.

3. Attention to the Concrete.

4. Desire to enjoy.

5. Delight in acquiring.

6. Desire to real-ise one's own Ideal.

7. Love of absorbing other organisms into oneself or one's own Ideals.

8. Consciousness of one's relation to persons visibly present (or whom one often sees, or constantly corresponds with).

9. Power of external observation by sight, hearing, etc.

10. Analysis.

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