ABSTRACT
The organism furnishes some specially designed type of stimulus. The receptors to which this special stimulus is applied, activate the reflex conduction mechanism in a new way. The initial stimulus mechanism for procreation drive seems to be the union of a pair of organisms, male and female. The usual pattern of self activity calls for a preponderance of activity in the skeletal muscles, and a corresponding preponderance of action energy sent over the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system to the blood vessels and glands that support and facilitate the actions of the skeletal muscles. The self energy, flowing toward the skeletal muscles and the allied viscera, increased by hunger pangs, is progressively inhibited by the reflex conduction activity evoked by food stimuli; and the hunger pangs themselves are gradually inhibited. The stimulus mechanisms responsible for hunger drive, whether hunger pangs or something else/seem rather to consist of over-active, or superior, stimulus mechanisms of one sort or another.
