A. B.-Z. FIGURE
TO ILLUSTRATE THE “DIVISION OF
LABOUR”
| First. A | Psychic Environment | This | |
| Mental State | involves: | ||
| Appetite (to select for) | DIGESTION | ||
| Attention (to prepare for) | |||
| Appreciation (to assist in) | |||
(Absolutely necessary to secure secretion and flow of the digestive juices: Vide Pawlow and Cannon.)
| Second. B | BUCCAL-DIGESTION | This | |
| MOUTH-TREATMENT | involves: | ||
| Mechanical (teeth) | THOROUGHNESS | ||
| Chemical (salival) | |||
(Absolutely necessary to secure complete digestion and avoid the putridity incident to bacterial decomposition: Vide Campbell and Van Someren.)
INTERMEDIATE
The twenty-three letters between “B” and “Z” represent but an inadequate proportion for the spelling of the enormous share Nature assumes in our welfare, marvellously performing her forty-seven forty-eighths share in the secret laboratory of the alimentary canal.
Third. Z
The true chemical end-point of digestion, by which each self-respecter may know how well he has respected his “A” and his “B,” and how faithfully he has performed his one forty-eighth share in the promotion of his own most fundamental interest.