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D. KINGDOMS OF NATURE. 

 INDIVIDUALS. 



463. All the matters that have hitherto originated 

 have done so only in a general not a particular manner. 

 They are constituent parts of the universe, in which as 

 yet no distinctions reside. So soon as distinctions occur 

 in the elements, they cease to be general matters, and 

 become particular or individual things. The sum of the 

 individuals is the Kingdoms of Nature. 



464. The kingdoms of nature are the repetition of the 

 world upon the planet. This repetition in consciousness 

 is Natural History. 



465. Acts of the world repeated upon the planet are 

 combinations of the elements. Creation, which has 

 hitherto advanced, now retrogrades, and thus by the 

 combinations of general elements that have been already 

 created. 



466. Combinations of the elements, in accordance 

 with the laws of the world, are upon the finite planet 

 particular or individual bodies. The kingdoms of nature 

 are the totality of particular bodies. 



467. That which is not a Particular belongs not to the 

 kingdoms of nature, and thus also does not come within 

 the province of Natural History, but of Physics. 



468. The earth-element lies at the basis of all the 

 combinations of the elements. These combinations are 

 therefore ascensions or retrogressions in creation. Only 

 three such combinations are therefore possible, viz. 

 1 . Of the earth with water, or air, or fire binary com- 

 bination. 2. Of the earth with water and air, without fire 

 ternary combination. 3. Of the earth with water, air, 

 and fire quaternary combination. 



469. Out of the binary combination the quiescent 

 bodies originate, for they are only a part of the planet 

 Minerals, Earths. 



470. Out of the ternary combination originate bodies 



