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direction, whither motion should act by means of the 

 central polarity, is in the animal called Sensation. 



1786. Sensation is the relation of the Central to the 

 Peripherie, of the sun to the planet ; motion is the relation) 

 of the periphery to the centre, of the planet to the sun. 

 The Animal emerges into being from the alternating play 

 of the supremest antagonism in the heavenly bodies, the 

 Vegetable from that of the terrestrial antagonisms. 



1787. Emission of light is discharging or unloading 

 of the sun achieved by the influence of the planets; 

 sensation is unloading of the animal by objects, by the 

 world, and by its own organs. 



1788. Sensation is therefore a positing of want in the 

 animal. Through sensation nothing comes into, but 

 rather something passes out of us. 



1789. The animal vesicle is a sentient or feeling 

 blossom. 



SEXUAL ANIMAL. 



1790. As the essence of the blossom consists in the 

 sex, so indeed is the blossom none other than the sexual 

 system ; thus it may be said that the animal vesicle is 

 none other than a sentient Sexual cyst. This discovery is 

 of the highest importance for the whole of zoosophy. 



1791. Two fundamental properties are originally com- 

 bined in the animal, at the very instant when an animal 

 can exist. There is never one without the other, never 

 simply sensation, but also motion ; but the latter is not 

 simply this, but is at once also a movement of copulation. 

 The animal is a sentient genital. 



1792. Both fundamental properties are however sub- 

 ordinated to each other. The basis of the animal 

 organism is the sexual system ; with this the animal 

 commences ; what is further developed in addition there- 

 unto, is only higher completion. But what it, as sexual 

 system, does, it does only through sensation. 



1793. It is natural that the animal has not been 

 concluded with the sentient sexual system ; but that the 

 terrestrial processes also are developed like as in the 



