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ness ; the animal is a plant blooming directly through 

 the light, and devoid of root. 



1779. The animal has been posited as alight- or aether- 

 Total upon the planet ; the vegetable as a planetary Total 

 in light. 



1780. The animal is a whole solar system, the plant 

 only a planet. The animal is therefore a whole universe, 

 the plant only its half; the former is microcosm, the 

 latter microplanet. 



ANIMAL PLACE. 



1781. No animal can become developed beneath the 

 earth, or where it is absolutely dark and dry. None 

 simply or solely in air. Water is the origin or source of 

 all animals. 



1782. They have originated upon the sea-shore, but 

 not in the midst of the sea, nor in that of the land. The 

 deluge cast up the first men. They were littoral inhabit- 

 ants, and without doubt carnivorous, as savages still 

 are. For whence could they have obtained also fruits, 

 cabbage, and turnips ? 



SENSATION. 



1783. In so far as the animal vesicle is a whole solar 

 system, to it, the characters that transcend the plant, 

 such as motion, belong. 



1784. But motion is not that alone which is displayed 

 in the floral cyst when it has become solar ; but with 

 it there is yet something higher bestowed. 



1785. Like light or sun the vesicle has the prin- 

 ciple of its polarization or determination in itself ; and it 

 is certainly itself which moves its organs in conformity 

 with this self-determination ; but it is withal in anta- 

 gonism towards the elements, like the sun is towards the 



lanets. Through this antagonism the sun is destined 

 the development of light. Although the light is its 

 1 own product, still it perceives the object toward which 



; the sether-polarity is directed. This perception of the 



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