336 BIOLOGY. 



1853. The origination of the three inferior substances 

 out of the nervous mass, is perfectly similar to the 

 original creative process of the three terrestrial elements 

 from the aether. The animal organism is a second 

 world-creation, for in the organic aether an organic air, 

 earth and water, have been produced, or it has itself 

 become these through fixation of the poles. This capa- 

 city for resemblance between the organic and inorganic 

 elements is marvellous ; but yet there would be more to 

 wonder at, ay, it would be thoroughly incomprehensible, 

 if the organic elements had been created according to 

 some other type. 



1854. When once the nervous mass has become sepa- 

 rated from the three other masses, each then commences 

 to be self-substantially perfected, and become a particular 

 organ, though it is still under the supremacy of the 

 primary mass. 



1855. The principal mass which constitutes the 

 animal body, after complete separation of the chaotic 

 nervous mass, is without doubt the fundamental mass of 

 everything organic ; being the mucus or cellular mass, in 

 which the other elements have only been included like 

 veins of ore. It is the cellular mass therefore which we 

 will first consider in its process of formative evolution. 



1856. As cellular mass it must be the seat of the 

 galvanic process, and thus of the life proper. In the 

 cellular mass consequently the three vegetative processes, 

 or the three terrestrial elementary processes, must be 

 firmly established; as there digestion, respiration and 

 nutrition are. 



1857. With these three processes, the three superior 

 elementary forms, which are peculiar to the animal, as 

 nerves, bones, and muscles, will have nothing to do, 

 excepting in so far as they govern them. As in the 

 plant, so also in an animal, the terrestrial processes are 

 only the appurtenance of the cellular tissue. 



1858. In cellular tissue is therefore the seat of life. 

 But the vegetative mass simply lives that it may live, 

 while the animal lives, in order to combine the universe 



