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must again be dissolved mtp_the original chaos^if any 

 thing new should reoriginate. 



947. Out of an organic menstruum only can a new 

 organism proceed, but not one organism out of the other. 

 A finished or perfect organism cannot gradually trans- 

 form itself into another. 



948. The generative juices, or semen and vitellus, 

 are none other than the total organism reduced to the 

 primary menstruum. 



949. Physically regarded also every individual origi- 

 nates only from the Absolute, but no one out of the 

 other. The history of generation is a retrogression into 

 the Absolute of the Organic, or the organic chaos 

 mucus, and a new evocation from the same. 



950. This development from mucus is only applicable 

 however to the generation of the perfect organisms, but 

 not to the origin of the organic body, or the infusorial 

 mass. The former originate only from an organic mass 

 that has been already formed ; but the infusorial mass, 

 as constituting the organic primary bodies, cannot have 

 originated in the same way. It does and must originate 

 directly from the Inorganic. For whence can the organic 

 matter have otherwise proceeded ? 



951. The infusorial mucus-mass originated, as has 

 been already remarked, at the moment when the earth's 

 metamorphosis was at an end ; at the moment, when 

 the planet succeeded in so bringing together and identi- 

 fying all the elementary processes, that they were all 

 together or at one and the same time in every point. 



952. Hence the organic primary body originated also 

 by synthesis, not by analysis, if regard be paid to its 

 factors. But do we consider this substance as first 

 emerging into view, when the coarse, abundant, isolated 

 materials, such as earth, metals, Inflammables, and salts 

 had separated themselves from it ; that this organic 

 primary body then remained behind as it were for the 

 first time : it has then originated through analysis, or 

 was preformed ; but so preformed as are also the metals, 

 and as is everything. It need scarcely be observed, 



