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parted by the co-operating influence of heat and light. 

 By the heat, because without this no galvanic and no 

 chemical process is possible ; further, because heat is the 

 totality of aether, the moved aether, the aetherial air, and 

 thus the menstruum of all action. But the heat is 

 not sufficient to animate the three terrestrial elements, be- 

 cause it imparts only the possibility of procedure and of 

 action ; while it does not differentialize, nor posit tension, 

 but maintains everything in identity, fluidity. In the 

 heat alone every thing must become fluid and finally 

 decompose. Unto heat therefore the accession is yet 

 necessary of the Cosmic-differencing, or the light. The 

 %ht inspires the body prepared by heat with life,/ 

 antagonism, polarity, ""x 



962. The aether imparts the substance, the heat the 

 form, the light the life. * (Oken first started this opi- 

 nion in his work, 'Die Zeugung/ Frankfurt, Wesche, 

 1805.) 



c. Processes of the Organic. 



963. The life of the organic body is not a single but 

 a threefold action, consisting of the actions of the three 

 terrestrial elements, which become the three fundamental 

 processes of the body, or of life, and in which three pro- 

 cesses galvanism consists. 



1. EARTH-PROCESS, NUTRITIVE PROCESS. 



964. The magnetic earth -process is virtually the 

 formative ; and in organic bodies is called the nutrient, 

 process. 



965. The process of nutrition is the principal process 

 in the organic world. Its product or its basis is the 

 fundamental mass of the body itself. As crystal and the 

 process of crystallization are related to each other, so are 

 the body and the process of nutrition. 



966. The process of nutrition is the sustaining, and 

 proper fundamental process of the organism. 



967. It is present entire and indivisible in every part 

 of the body. Whencesoever it is ablated or withdrawn, 

 there is death. 



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