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the periphery is chiefly imparted by oxydation, because 

 here the oxygen of the water exerts a direct influence. 

 The transformation does not, however, simply occur 

 upon the periphery, but also internally, and that indeed 

 in a beamy or radial direction. The external parts wih 1 

 be harder, the internal or radial continue soft, but be 

 more solid than the nervous mass itself. 



2. Globe-tissue. 



1819. The nervous tissue alone cannot constitute the 

 animal substance concerned in all functions, but it must 

 with further development pass over into another. As 

 the aether-mass cannot concentrate itself into the sun 

 without, from the antagonism with the refraction of light, 

 condensing into planets, so also a central mass cannot 

 subsist in an animal, without converting itself on the 

 periphery into one that is planetary or terrestrial. 



1820. The antagonistic mass, originating in a peri- 

 pheral relation in the nervous mass, will surround the 

 residue of the latter like a bladder or cyst, just like the 

 planetary masses, or the colours, have primordially sur- 

 rounded the sun as great hollow globes. The aggregate 

 and purer nervous mass becomes thus directly the cen- 

 tral mass of the animal the brain. 



1821. The limitary mass originates through oxyge- 

 nation. Thus the colours originate ; they are an oxyge- 

 nated light. Thus has every terrestrial mass originated 

 through combustion. The planets are suns that have 

 undergone combustion ; the limitary mass is nervous 

 mass similarly treated and deoxydized. 



1822. As having been already subjected to combus- 

 tion, it therefore becomes polarizable, and consequently 

 susceptible of sensation in the least degree. The limi- 

 tary mass must be rigid or fixed; for it has indeed 

 originated through fixation of the poles, or through the 

 strongest oxydation. The limitary mass is the most 

 rigid in the whole animal ; for it is the primary antago- 

 nism with the nervous mass, the ultimate planetary 

 matter, which is characterized by immoveability of the 

 atoms. 



