332 BIOLOGY. 



1823. The limitary mass must be typical of the 

 earth-element, this being the most rigid, and the end 

 of the oxydation. The limitary mass is the animal 

 earth-mass, just as the median mass is the animal sether- 

 or fire-mass. 



1824. The texture of the animal earth-mass must be 

 that of a crystal, but of a round globular crystal ; for it 

 is organic mass, and can consequently have been only 

 deposited as vesicle ; it is, however, earthy mass, so that 

 the whole vesicle must be, with all its substance, 

 rigidified. Now, the rigidified substance of a vesicle is a 

 globe the texture of the mass which is opposed to 

 that of the nerves is consequently the globular form. 



Osseous Mass. 



1825. The rigidified limitary mass, which exhibits his- 

 tologically dense globes, consists of earthy substance, and 

 surrounds the nervous mass, is osseous mass. The 

 osseous or bony texture is a solid globe or rigidified 

 vesicle, being thus ambitus or boundary, as well as corn- 

 plexus or contents. 



1826. Bone can only originate through oxydation of 

 the animal mucous or nervous mass, whereby it is con- 

 verted into a vesicular form. These vesicles are, how- 

 ever, by virtue of the highest oxydation, which must ne- 

 cessarily enter into antagonism with the highest central 

 organ, converted wholly and thoroughly into rigid sub- 

 stance or earth, which is the maximum of the oxydation 

 or fixation of aether. 



1827. The osseous substance, as the organic earth- 

 mass, corresponds to the gravity. It is the materiality 

 in a general point of view in the Organic, and conse- 

 quently the Inert. 



1828. Osseous or limitary organs will become more 

 rigid in the air than in water. The air-breathing 

 animals must have more perfect bones or harder limitary 

 organs. 



1829. Bones are therefore either wanting completely 

 in the aquatic animals, or they are mucus scarcely 



