The plant may be characterized as organic water whicli is polar- 

 ized upon two sides, towards the earth and the air. The vegetable 

 vesicle must, therefore, maintain two poles. While it would re- 

 present in itself the magnetic pole, it endeavors to identify itself, to 

 obey gravity, and merge into the darkness toward the mediate point 

 of the earth ; but that it may remain a galvanic pole it becomes ex- 

 cited by the air, strives to become a Diflferent and to attain the light. 



Animals are entire heavenly bodies, satellites or moons, which cir- 

 culate independently about the earth ; all plants, on the contrary, 

 taken together, are only equivalent to one heavenly body. An ani- 

 mal is an infinity of plants. 



Physiophilosophy. 



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