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precipitate from the Fluid wrought by the influence of the 

 air. The air, however, is externally related to the 

 mucus- point. The Solid can therefore originate nowhere 

 else than between the Fluid and the #ir. It consequently 

 surrounds in accordance with its genesis the Fluid. The 

 physical cause thereof is naturally the oxydation of 

 mucus upon its periphery. A globe, the middle of 

 which is fluid, but the periphery solid, is called a bladder 

 or cyst. 



934. The first organic points are vesicles. The 

 organic world has for its basis an infinity of vesicles. 

 (Ed. 1st, 1813. . 922.) 



INFUSORIA. 



935. The mucous primary vesicle may in a philosophi- 

 cal sense be aptly called infusorium, like as we designate 

 the primary condition of the embryo, by the word vitellus. 

 Now are we making use of definite expressions. 



936. Everywhere, where the three elements coope- 

 rate, are infusoria present thus upon the sea-shore, the 

 tide-mark or strand, and shallow watery places. 



937. The infusorium is a galvanic point, a galvanic 

 vesicle, a galvanic column or chain. 



938. In every infusorium there is triplicity of the 

 poles, or properly speaking, of the processes. Each one 

 maintains itself by the nutritive, digestive, and respiratory 

 process, or what amounts to the same, the infusorial 

 globule of mucus assumes a figure, its peculiar fluidity is 

 formed in its interior, and it becomes oxydized. As is 

 well known, no infusorium can live without moisture, 

 and none if the access of air having been prevented, or 

 the water boiled, it is freed from the air and the Earthy. 



939. If the organic fundamental substance consist of 

 infusoria, so must the whole organic world originate 

 from infusoria. Plants and animals can only be meta- 

 morphoses of infusoria. 



940. This being granted, so also must all organizations 

 consist of infusoria, and during their destruction dissolve 

 into the same. Every plant, every animal is converted 



