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tremities, an identical earth- and a dyadic air-extremity ; 

 and thus the plant must be regarded as the organism, 

 which manifests a constant endeavour, upon the one side 

 to become earth, on the other air, upon the one side 

 identical metal, on the other duplex air. 



1050. The plant is a radius, that towards the centre 

 becomes identical, towards the periphery divides or starts 

 asunder. The plant is not therefore an entire circle or 

 globe, but only a section of such, a cone, whose apex has 

 been turned towards the centre of the earth, or would 

 become earth-centre. It can therefore have no middle- 

 point. It will on the contrary demonstrate that the 

 animal is the totality of radii, is consequently diameter, 

 and has therefore a centre of its own, or is entire globe. 

 As the whole earth is surrounded by plants, and all their 

 roots turn towards the centre; the whole vegetable 

 kingdom only forms a sphere, composed of infinitely 

 numerous cones. On the contrary every individual 

 animal forms a sphere for itself alone, and is therefore 

 worth as much as all plants taken together. Animals 

 are entire heavenly bodies, satellites or moons, which 

 circulate independently about the earth; all plants, on 

 the contrary, taken together are only equivalent to one 

 heavenly body. An animal is an infinity of plants. 



1051. In so far as an organism strives unto identity 

 or to gravity, it seeks to produce the Metallic, the carbon, 

 the Alkaline. The indifferent and alkaline character 

 appears in the earth -extremity of the plant. Mucus and 

 acid bodies are evidenced for the most part in the root. 

 In so far as the organism strives unto duplicity, it will 

 produce the salt, the acid and the Inflammable. Acids 

 and electric bodies are manifested in the air-extremity of 

 the plant. 



1052. The two vegetable extremities are accordingly 

 related to each other as alkali and acid, and as carbon 

 and hydrogen. In the air the water is divided into 

 oxygen and hydrogen, acids and oils; in the earth it 

 hardens into earths and carbon. 



3053. The earth-end or the alkaline extremity of the 



