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as sheaths through the whole body, like as in the plant 

 are the bark, liber and wood. 



1872. They are divisible next of all into two great 

 parties, into the terrestrial and cosmical, or vegetative 

 and animal. 



A. VEGETATIVE SYSTEMS. 



1873. The vegetable systems can only be different 

 developments of the tegument. They accord with the 

 galvanic factors. Any further derivation of them is un- 

 necessary. The tegumental development must be -repre- 

 sented as the systems of digestion, respiration, and 

 nutrition, since from it these have been sufficiently bor- 

 rowed or derived. 



1874. Except these three systems there can be no 

 other tegumental system; and, if such appear to be 

 present, they must be subordinate to these. For there 

 cannot be subsequently any more than there was 

 fundamentally or at bottom. 



1875. In the animal, however, the galvanic processes 

 do not remain entangled in one mass, as in the plant. 

 But they are even characterized as animal by their indi- 

 vidual liberation from the whole mass. In the plant 

 digestion or absorption, and nutrition or the course of 

 the sap, were in one kind of mass or one kind of cellular 

 tissue, all three processes (together with respiration) being 

 in a tolerably confused condition. 



1876. The animal appears in its dignity by separation 

 of these processes, and by the perfection of each indi- 

 vidually, or " per se." 



1877. As all life consists only in the constant con- 

 version of what is inorganic into the Organic, so is the 

 process of digestion or absorption necessarily the first in 

 animals. 



1. INTESTINAL SYSTEM. 



1878. The chemical process of the galvanism is con- 

 version of the Inorganic into mucus, and thus an assump- 

 tion of this matter into the organic body. Now as every 



