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oxydized, in other words, cartilage ; or finally, almost 

 entirely rough carbonated earth, in the corals and 

 shells. 



1830. This theory is most beautifully proved in the 

 corals. Internally they consist of granular substance, 

 like the polyps, or of sentient nervous mass ; externally 

 they are simply earth or globular form, which is the 

 rudest antagonism presented to the likewise rude central 

 mass. 



1831. Bone essentially surrounds the nervous mass. 

 The skull environs and incloses the brain, the vertebra? 

 the spinal cord, the ribs, the visceral nerves the snail's 

 shell all the soft parts of that animal, the coral stem its 

 polyp-tube, the horny coat the insect. 



1832. The purest and highest antagonisms in an 

 animal are nerve and bone, and as such they are de- 

 monstrated on every occasion. The nerve is that which 

 is soft, powerless, changeable, sentient, governing, and 

 motion-imparting ; the bone, what is hard, strong, un- 

 changeable, non-sentient, governed, and becoming moved ; 

 the one properly speaking the spiritually vitalizing, the 

 other the spiritually dead, or self-subsistent simply in a 

 mineral point of view. The bone is the obedient planet 

 of the nerve. 



1833. Point- and globe-form are consequently, as re- 

 gards the tissue of the substance, the first two forms of 

 the animal body. 



1834. What develops itself apart from nerve and bone 

 in the animal, must either range between or below both ; 

 it must participate of both forms, or be only their in- 

 completion. 



3. Fibrous Tissue. 



1835. The nervous and osseous substance could not 

 range opposite to each other, without a transition or a 

 something interposing; as little as could aether and 

 Terrestrial, or sun and planet, between which the moved 

 aether or the heat oscillates, and conditionates the plane- 

 tary motion. 



