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trees. The next in order of creation is the animal kingdom, 

 which has its foundation in the vegetable. Its 1st divisions are 

 seen in the synopsis, placed in the analytic order. 



3dly, these great departments in the organic circle, are distin- 

 guished from each other, not merely by their outward forms and 

 properties, but also by their internal structure, as follows: 

 Minerals are formed by simple geometrical laws of chrystaliza- 

 tion. Vegetation is formed by the union of the laws of chrys- 

 talization, with the vegetative principle ; while every .being in the 

 animal kingdom, unites in itself the laws of chrystalization, veg- 

 etation, and sensation. 



4thly. We have now shown that nature consists of three dis- 

 tinct kinds of organism, each possessing different degrees of per- 

 fection, and that each, though complete in itself, is connected 

 with the others, and each becoming more perfect as we arise in 

 the scale of material beings ; and as the human race is the high- 

 est extreme in these organic sciences the human body being 

 the most perfect of all material organisms, we might expect that 

 a still higher principle had its development in it ; and such infer- 

 ence is correct, for the human mind is a spiritual organism. 



5thly. In the true science of Antroponomy, the same arrange- 

 ment applies. Man is first considered in his material or natural 

 state. He is first a material organism ; to this is added the men- 

 tal, life or spirtual, organism ; and lastly, to these two, the divine 

 life, each successive development depending on the perfectness of 

 the preceding state ; thus a good and healthy mind depends on 

 a proper development of the bodily organs, particularly the cere- 

 bral development ; and thus it follows again that in the divine life 

 we shall be happy or miserable in proportion to the proper or im- 

 proper use we make of our mental powers while in the present 

 state of existence. 



6thly. From the preceding considerations we see that man is 

 not only represented by the three kingdoms of nature, but is him- 

 self a sub-typical representation of the whole range of panto- 

 nomic science. This law of representation runs through all 

 Branches of science. 



