334 BIOLOGY. 



1836. Between the soft point-form of the nerve and 

 the hard globe-form of the bone, a semi-oxydation 

 stands midway, just as the air stands between the aether 

 and the earth. As this is the medium element, wherein 

 the light is refracted into colours, and thereby warms 

 and moves the planet, so must this median animal for- 

 mation be the element, through which the nerve imparts 

 its motion to the bones. 



1837. This organ stands, like the air, upon the midst 

 of the oxydation ; the oxygen becomes alternately united 

 with it and set free ; which is neither possible in the 

 point-form, as being that which incessantly liberates 

 oxygen, nor in the globe-form, as being that which 

 always holds or retains the oxygen in union with it. 



1838. This tissue must consist of firm or solid nervous 

 granules, which have been serially co-arranged in lines 

 or radii. Such organic lines are called Fibres. 



1839. The fibrous is the third original tissue, which 

 appears in the animal organization. 



1840. The nerve acts upon the fibres as upon the 

 bone, or as a Central upon a Peripherie, as the light 

 upon the air. 



1841. Thereby the soft fibre is polarized; the poles 

 are mutually attracted and repelled, and motion of the 

 fibres originates, their extremities approximating or with- 

 drawing by virtue of the polarity. Contractile fibres are 

 called sarcose or fleshy fibres. 



Flesh. 



1842. The flesh is the median formation between 

 nerve and bone. It is half nervous mass, therefore 

 sentient, half bone, therefore moving. 



1843. The essence of the motion resides in the muscle, 

 not in the nerve. Such is the cause of motion, the muscle 

 being the self-moving, the bone that which is moved. 



1844. The flesh must surround the bone, as the air or 

 water surrounds the earth. 



1845. The flesh is a terrestrial substance, just as the 



