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polar axis. But inversely also the shell is determined 

 by the nucleus, by the polar radii. A nucleus alone 

 would be called a centre of a circle without circum- 

 ference. Microscopic crystals therefore have at once 

 the same perfected form as the largest in size. A crys- 

 tal is an entire heavenly body ; it is determined by cen- 

 tral forces, which have, however, been roused and con- 

 ducted by dualizing forces, forces of light. Everywhere 

 do we meet with the same laws of the fixation of a3ther, 

 upon a small as well as large scale. 



461. Every solid matter and thus the Terrestrial gene- 

 rally, is crystallized upon a small as well as large scale. 

 There cannot be an atom that were not crystallized, not 

 arranged according to central and polar forces. Every 

 crystal is therefore, and especially by reason of the in- 

 finity of the subordinate poles, crystallized again upon 

 an infinitely small scale, or in other words it consists of 

 infinitely numerous crystals. Every lamella or every 

 particle of the lamella of a crystal consists again of crys- 

 tals. These are what are called the integral parts, 

 properly integral forms of the crystal. They are all 

 probably hexahedra. The metals usually form but very 

 small crystals, probably because the atoms are too 

 heavy and cannot therefore be attracted from any 

 distance. 



462. Crystallography has been incorrectly made the 

 principle of division in Mineralogy. A single character 

 can never become a principle of division. If also it 

 were actually true, that the form is always disposed ac- 

 cording to the Interior, yet the form could never be the 

 principle of division, but the Interior itself. The form 

 is only the sign, but not the spirit, the essence of the 

 mass. 



