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intestine is prolonged through the absorbent vessels, as 

 being also small inversions, toward the lung, and be- 

 comes a stem thoracic duct. Then the thoracic duct 

 finally unites with the lungs through the medium of the 

 heart, which is a new formation. 



1924. Everything becomes stem which attains a 

 higher grade, and which approximates the air and light. 

 The stem strives to be a centre, but the ramification 

 devolves upon the periphery ; the former upon the 

 Solar or Animal ; the latter upon the Planetary or Vege- 

 tative. 



1925. The nobler therefore a formation, by so much 

 the more single and stemmy is it : such is the case with 

 the trachea of the lungs, such with the lymphatic duct. 



3. VASCULAR SYSTEM. 



1926. The earth or the nutritive mass acts also upon 

 its formation, and destines the tegument to a peculiar 

 structure. The result of the electric and chemical process, 

 or of the oxydation of the mucus, is precipitation, mass- 

 and earth-formation ; it is thus a process of nutrition, 

 since through it the Solid of the body, with even the 

 branchial and intestinal membranes, originates. 



1927. The earth-system can only be developed where 

 the two last systems coincide, or where the intestinal 

 and branchial processes enter into mutual contact ; in 

 short, where the mucus is oxydized, and thereby separated 

 into what is aerial and rigid. 



1928. This spot is only in the middle between the 

 two. The process of precipitation and the formation of 

 matter occurs, consequently, between the two layers of 

 integument, or at present between the two teguments 

 that have become self-substantial, or between intestine 

 and skin. 



1929. A new formation must be evolved, whereby the 

 two shall be held together; a formation, whereby the 

 antagonism shall be conducted from one to the other ; 

 and thus whereby the mucus shall be conveyed to the 

 skin, but the air to the intestine. 



