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d. Blood. 



1990. The blood signifies the earth in the animal, 

 combined with water and air. 



1991. The blood is the proper nutritive matter for 

 the animal. 



1992. The blood is earth, which carries all terrestrial 

 elements in itself, such as the air through the gills, the 

 water through the intestine, and is consequently a com- 

 plete planet. 



1993. The blood is a fluid planet. 



1994. The blood is the fluid body. 



1995. The body is the fixed or rigid blood. Blood and 

 body are wholly equivalent, have the same elements in 

 themselves ; only here the latter are stationary, there 

 they course along. Both consist of mucus or gelatine, 

 albumen and fibrine. 



1996. The blood is half combusted mucus, the body 

 mucus, that has been wholly subjected to combustion. 



1997. After the vascular system has attained its own 

 circulation, or to the closed galvanism, no higher de- 

 velopment of the tegumentary formation is any longer 

 conceivable ; as little as after the blossom anything more 

 could originate. 



1998. After all three elements are united into one 

 point, into one system, as is the case in the circulation, 

 where the venous blood represents the water, the arterial 

 blood the earth and air, no new system can further ori- 

 ginate in the vegetative body. 



4. SEXUAL SYSTEM. 



1999 In so far as the animal adopts in to itself, or is 

 rather based upon, the whole plant, the blossom or Sex 

 is also developed in it. The vegetable sex consists of 

 seed, capsule, and corolla. 



2000. The seed is the first part of the blossom which 

 is put forth in the plant. The most inferior or asexual 

 plants have only seeds devoid of capsule and corolla, and 

 produced without the concurrence of female and male 



