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only into the chemical body, without being body itself. 

 No galvanism therefore continues, if it be denied the 

 access of air. The chain or column enters it is true into 

 tension also without air, but remains only for a short 

 time in that state, or so long only as there is a trace of 

 oxygen in the water. 



878. Galvanism, as a tri-elementary process, repre- 

 sents the planet in its totality. The galvanic column is 

 an entire planet, a planet upon the planet, the planet 

 individualized. 



879. The individual, taken in a strong sense, is an 

 entire planet taken up into Singulars, a triphcity of 

 the elements in the particular or special unity. In gal- 

 vanism there consequently issues forth for the first time 

 an individual, which is equivalent to a cosmic totality. 

 Galvanism is the metatype of the planet. All other 

 and profounder processes are not total in character, 

 nor metatypes of a whole system, but only moieties 

 thereof. 



880. The planet, regarded in itself, in its three 

 elements, apart from its relation to the sun, is a galvanic 

 body, a column, just as inversely this is a planet. 



881. The attributes, which consequently belong to 

 the planet, abstractedly from the sun, must belong to 

 every galvanic process, or to such a body. The planet 

 is a Whole included in itself, and thus is_galyanism. The 

 latter acts only in a closed chain, or only by its 

 own body or its materiality forming one circle that 

 returns into itself. The three elements are mutually 

 self-excited and moved, and that indeed from internal 

 causes, though not apart from external conditions. Thus 

 galvanism is like an individual planet._ 



B. Primary Organism. 



882. An individual (total, self-included) body, excited 

 and moved by itself, is called Organism. Organism is 

 what individual planet is. The metatype of the planet 

 is organism ; or a planet upon the planet is organism. 



