194 BIOLOGY. 



968. It operates according to the laws of crystal- 

 lization. 



969. Its very forms are crystals modified by the or- 

 ganic mass or, what amounts to the same, by the 

 other processes combined therewith. The organic body 

 is an accumulation of an infinity of (organic) crystals 

 (cells). 



970. In the planetary process of formation, which is 

 a process of crystallization, the organism is continually 

 comprehended. It is the planetary body ever becoming ; 

 the latter is an organic body, which has ceased to be- 

 come. 



2. WATER-PROCESS, DIGESTIVE PROCESS. 



971. Another action, that helps to constitute the or- 

 ganic body, is the chemism, which is not only the process 

 of liquefaction, but the process also of the formation or 

 creation of new organic matter. It is known to us un- 

 der the name of Digestive process. 



972. The digestive process elevates the Inorganic up 

 to the organic mass, like the chemism has converted the 

 Earthy into carbonate of lime and finally into muriatic 

 natron. The digestive process is the process of the for- 

 mation of mucus. Regarded philosophically the nutritive 

 juice (or chyle) is naught else than mucus. This is also 

 correct in a physiological point of view. 



973. The digestive process is the second organic pro- 

 cess, in so far as it has been fashioned after the type of 

 the water ; but the first, in so far as every Organic has 

 originated out of water. 



974. As forming only the mucus it is not directly dis- 

 tributed in every part of the body like the nutritive pro- 

 cess, which is the body or planet itself. But it inter- 

 poses, or is mediate, everywhere. 



975. As the water of the planet is related to the 

 continent or earth's nucleus, so are the digestive matters 

 or the mucus of nutrition to the body. The Earthy, 

 however, is the principal mass of the planet, upon which 

 the others have been supported. So is the nutritive body 



