318 BIOLOGY. 



THIRD KINGDOM. 



ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



1755. The animal kingdom is the individual develop- 

 ment of all four elements. 



ZOOSOPHY, 



1756. Is the development of the animal kingdom in 

 consciousness. The repetition of the animal creation 

 is spiritually divisible into Anatomy (Zoogeny), Physi- 

 ology (Zoonorny), and Zoology. 



I. ZOOGENY. 



1757. Zoogeny represents the idea of the animal or 

 the developmental history of the individual animal. 



IRRITABILITY OF THE BLOSSOM. 



1758. The Highest to which the vegetable kingdom 

 could attain was the blossom ; and of this the sexual 

 parts are the completion. At the instant when the sex 

 originated, the vegetable functions became of a nobler 

 character; for the sexual organs are only the inferior 

 organs refined or purified by light. The electrical and 

 chemical process of the vegetable body are again repre- 

 sented, but in a spiritual manner, in the blossom. The 

 functions of the fruit were none other than those of the 

 elevated chemism ; they were only the nobler processes of 

 digestion and nutrition. As their purest expression of 

 life, and that which has been produced simply by their co- 

 operation, is the motion which resides in cellular tissue, so 

 also was it this only, which obtained a preponderance in 

 the fruit, and that indeed at the cost of the material pro- 

 cesses. The germen obtained a kind of motion ; yet this 

 appears to be still imparted by material processes. In 



