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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
20-MOTOR MECHANISMS
The levers of voluntary motion are controlled by the key-board in the Central Organ of the Mind. They are formed by motor nerve-terminals, early in the course of life. Moved by his stinging' impulses (instincts) the child is thrown into a state of agitation, which is automatically communicated to his bodily limbs, and he soon learns the effect and the method of useful movements of the hands and the feet and the mouth. Inner groupings of the nerves of motion are formed in the course of these movements, and in due course of time a regular key-board is formed in the central office of the mind.
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The soul is not like a tenant in a house, and is not free to move in its body. It is chained to matter exceedingly tightly, and may not turn round the least bit in its prison. Because of its thus being chained to the levers of movements at their inner terminals, it is that every true act of the will (not mere deliberative activity) is immediately an act of the body. The impulses of the will, impinging on the keys of the operative board, enable it to move its hands and feet, and the muscles of the bodily limbs generally, producing the desired movements.
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