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plant is the root ; the air-end, or the acid and oily, is 

 the entire stem-fabric, or body. The plant has first 

 of all two cardinal organs, viz. root and stem-fabric. 

 Both together represent the water divided into earth- 

 and air-mucus. The root is the central extremity 

 of the plant, and is therefore prolonged or runs out into 

 magnetic points ; the stem-fabric is the peripheric and 

 therefore expands into branches and electric surfaces. 



1054. But besides the air, the light also operates upon 

 the plant and stimulates it to grow aloft and produce a 

 light- organ. This light- organ can thus originate only 

 upon the apex or summit. It is I}\Q flower. The flower 

 can therefore stand nowhere else than on the summit or 

 end of the plant. The light however acts upon many 

 points of the upper surface of the vegetable trunk and 

 elongates the same. One plant can therefore support 

 numerous flowers, but all of these must stand upon an 

 extremity. Wherever therefore a flower may happen to 

 stand, that spot must be regarded as a summit or end. 

 There is thus also, according to the physiological view of 

 the matter, a light-organ in the plant, which is its animal 

 pre-affection. The chief antagonism in the plant is in 

 this respect therefore between trunk and inflorescence 

 the former is related to the latter as plant to animal. 

 Were the plant to attain unto animal functions ; they 

 could thus only take place in the flower. 



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1055. The tissues are the unseparated organs of the 

 three fundamental processes, the earth-, water-, and air- 

 process. 



1. WATER-ORGAN, CELLULAR TISSUE. 



1056. If a mucus-vesicle lie upon the ground, it thus 

 continues indifferent upon the lower or dark side, and is 

 only affected by the gravity and the water ; the upper 

 side, on the contrary, by the differencing air and light. 

 It is consequently prolonged into the earth and into the 

 air. It must pass over from the round into a linear 



