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more and more divested of their coarse coverings, and 

 traverses the same like radiating, ilium in ant, heating, 

 and moving aether. It is a positing of the centre in the 

 periphery. 



1812. When also the other systems have been formed 

 out of the identical nervous mass, still the whole animal 

 body is naught but nervous mass, only, in a crude or 

 inert condition. There is, consequently, no point upon 

 the body, on which the nervous phenomena are abso- 

 lutely wanting, or where they may not appear under 

 certain relations. 



1813. What remains behind of the nervous mass, 

 has now the form of filaments or rays, which are pro- 

 jected from one centre, the brain, to all parts of the 

 periphery. 



1814. The nerves being individualized, and with- 

 drawn from the coarser mass, stand in need of no actio 

 in distans, or no nervous atmosphere (although for other 

 reasons such a one may exist), in order that every part 

 of the body should have sensibility or feel ; for every 

 substance is verily but an aberrant nervous substance, 

 in which the original spirit is still inherent or abides. 



1815. Each part of the body has consequently irri- 

 tability, and each one has the capacity for sensation ; and 

 that, indeed, through and in itself, or not borrowed from, 

 what have been called, nerves ; as it is indeed only the 

 coarse nervous envelope of the more delicate nerves. 



1816. Yet, meanwhile it is certain, that nothing feels 

 but the nervous mass, because every thing, which feels, 

 does, and hath the power to do so, only in so far as it has 

 been nervous mass. Precisely as all metals are only 

 magnetic in so far as they are metamorphosed iron, 

 which is the primary metal. 



1817. Certain formations or textures must, on that 

 account, have different sensations, because they have 

 deviated more or less remotely from the primary texture ; 

 without in this any regard being paid to the number of 

 nerves running to such systems. 



1818. The transformation of the nervous mass upon 



