186 BIOLOGY. 



906. All life is from the sea, none from the conti- 

 nent. 



907. All mucus is endowed with life. 



908. The whole sea is alive. It is a fluctuating, ever 

 self-elevating and ever self-depressing organism. 



909. Where the sea-organism by self-elevation suc- 

 ceeds in attaining unto form, there issues forth from it a 

 higher organism. Love arose out of the sea-foam. 



910. The primary mucus was and is still generated in 

 those very parts of the sea where the water is in contact 

 with earth and air, and thus upon the shores. 



911. The first creation of the Organic took place, 

 where the first mountain summits projected out of the 

 water ; and thus indeed without doubt in India, if the 

 Himalaya be the highest mountain. 



912. The first organic forms, whether plants or ani- 

 mals, emerged from the shallow parts of the sea. 



913. Man also is a child of the warm and shallow 

 parts of the sea in the neighbourhood of the land. 



914. It is possible, that Man has only originated on 

 one spot, and that indeed the highest mountain in India. 

 It is even possible, that only one favorable moment was 

 granted, in which Men could arise. A definite mixture 

 of water, definite heat of blood, and definite influence of 

 light must concur to his production ; and this has pro- 

 bably been the case only in a certain spot and at a certain 

 time. 



915. The first men were the littoral and mountainous 

 inhabitants of warmer countries, and found therefore at 

 once reptiles, fishes, fruit, and game for food. 



CHANGE. 



916. The number of individual organisms is not 

 persistent. For they are verily only products of a 

 ceaseless polarization or a constant evocation of poles in 

 the great galvanism, positions of the general galvanism 

 in time. Thus, as the poles change, so also do the 

 organic individuals. The kingdom of organisms is an 

 iron bar, in which the magnetic poles originate and 



