Physiology treats of functions performed normally. Pathology discourses upon functions performed in an unusual manner. The performance of functions depend upon the amount of energy stored and aroused by innervation. Pathological physiology is the performance of functions by an excess or a deficiency of vital force. Teratology is the science of abnormal growths, the result of vegetative functions performed in an abnormal and unusual amount.
Vitality runs the vegetative function, while intellectuality directs the cumulative function.
As the vegetative function may produce teratism, even so, the cumulative may accumulate monstrous intellectual conceptions. As we carry with us in this world perfect or imperfect bodies, just so, we take with us into the next world sane or insane ideas gathered in this world. The cumulative function determines the contents of the intellectual storehouse. The condition of the physical determines the qualifications of the mental. We take with us into the beyond just what we have mentally gathered in this preparatory stage, whether those thoughts, impressions and recollections, are sane or insane, normal or monstrous, of reason or of a freakish mind.