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mental organism has thus been shown to be in its ap- 

 parent processes a synotype or likeness of the planet ; 

 in other words, a microscopic planet. 



983. These three processes constitute the galvanic 

 process. Making use of the expressions applied to the 

 inorganic kingdom, we found the organism to be a com- 

 bination of magnetism, chemism, and electrism ; while in 

 organic parlance it is a nutritive process, maintained by 

 respiration and digestion. The processus nutritorius, 

 digestivus, respiratorius, together constituting galvanism. 



4. MOTION. 



984. Motion is no peculiar or self-persistent process, 

 but the necessary manifestation of galvanism. Motion 

 has been established with the three organic fundamental 

 processes. 



985. Every motion depends upon the galvanic pro- 

 cess. Taken in a strict sense, there is no process of 

 motion, but motion only. For motion is verily but the 

 phenomenon of galvanism. The process of motion is 

 synonymous with the galvanic process. 



986. The galvanic process is a process of motion ef- 

 fected in circles, in its own factors, in its planet, but not 

 from without ; it is consequently an actual vital process. 



987. As the process of motion is the phenomenon 

 common to all three organic fundamental processes, so is 

 the whole organism characterized by it. The essence of 

 the Organic depends consequently upon its automatic or 

 self-motion. 



988. Self-motion is the only, but essential and ulti- 

 mate, distinction between the Organic and Inorganic. 

 (Ed. 1st, 1810. 904.) All other distinctions that 

 have been advanced do not suffice ; because they do not 

 comprehend the totality of the organism, nor the three 

 fundamental processes in one phenomenon, but only in- 

 dividual attributes. 



989. A circumscribed, closed mass, which moves 

 itself, is an organism. The perpetuum mobile is only 

 the organism. 



