This paper focuses on the assertion of the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess (1989: 20) that "ethics follow from how we experience the world." I discuss what the statement might mean when applied to Naessian Deep Ecology. There follows a discussion of the close cohesion between experience and practice in Naessian thought. I attend to Naess's descriptions of the relationship between mystical nature experience and "ecological enlightenment," in which he suggests that an intense union with nature will lead the experiencing individual to enact Deep Ecological thought, as Naess formulates it. I seek to amplify the definition of mystical nature experience with reference to William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, and particularly to James's assertions about the effects of religious experience on individual action. Naess (1986: 225-239) has cited James's work as a significant influence on his understanding of the terms "self" and "experience." Is Naess advocating a need to reeducate people to experience nature, in the hope that environmental awareness will increase accordingly? What experience of nature would inspire an environmental ethic? I conclude by arguing that Naess's reformative agenda stands in a complex relationship to the emphasis on individual, mystical nature experience as the catalyst to "ecological enlightenment." This complexity has not been satisfactorily resolved within Naessian Deep Ecology.
The plantar pads of the hind feet of 15 male and female, young and old Clethrionomys glareolus (Rodentia–family Muridae) were examined for the presence of tubular glands. Groups of eight or nine coiled glands were found in all of the 11 plantar pads. The secretory portion of the gland lies deep in the fatty hypodermis and communicates with the plantar surface by a coiled duct whose lining cells merge with those of the stratum basale of the undersurface of the foot. Groups of shallow depressions mark the site of the duct openings. They are not associated with any hairs.
Although light microscopy shows only one cell type, electron microscopy reveals two morphologically different cell types. Neither conform directly to the light and dark secretory cells of the human sweat glands although similarities exist. Myoepithelial cells surround the secretory cells, but do not appear to be present around the duct cells.
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