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bone is ; the nerve is a cosmical substance, and on that 

 account the mediator of everything. 



B. VEGETABLE TISSUES. 







4. Cellular Tissue. 



1846. There are three, and only three constituent 

 forms essential to the animal substance, the point, the 

 globe, and the line ; equivalent to centre, periphery, and 

 radius. 



1847. Out of these three all other forms, of whatever 

 kind, are developed, through degradation unto vegetable 

 structure. This form can be none other than the Cell-form. 

 In the animal there are therefore four fundamental forms, 

 while in the vegetable only one occurs. 



1848. The cellular form may be also called the water 

 in the animal, the globe-form the earth, 'the fibrous 

 the air, the point-form the fire. Thus is the animal 

 even in its tissues a whole universe, for it cannot other- 

 wise be thought of. 



1849. The cellular substance is the last division of 

 the point-substance, because the nervous granule becomes 

 hollow. A true cellular tissue first makes its appearance 

 therefore in the higher animals. 



1850. Bone, flesh and nerve are the highest organs 

 of the animal ; the viscera, which mostly consist of 

 cellular tissue, will indicate the Vegetative in the animal. 

 Proper animal organs can only present the above- 

 mentioned triplicity. What is not bone, flesh or nerve, 

 is not animal, but vegetable. 



1851. Nerve, flesh and bone are mutually excited, 

 and are independent of the cellular tissue. They are 

 moreover the animal in the animal, the thoroughly Free 

 and Voluntary. 



1852. These three substances have therefore nothing 

 to do with the three terrestrial processes ; they do not 

 digest, respire, nourish nor transport about the galvanic 

 sap, but live for themselves or to their own satisfaction. 



