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animals only can be androgynous. In the snails 

 one of the two molluscan shell-valves has been more 

 largely developed than the other, and therefore one half 

 also of the body is greater than the other. On this 

 account many hermaphrodites are found among these 

 animals. 



2311. Thus, there ought to be no androgynous ani- 

 mals with at the same time two ovaria and two testes. 

 Nevertheless, this very peculiarity occurs in many of the 

 lower organized animals, e. g. the worms. 



2312. Accordingly, the principle of androgynism is in 

 general to be found in the want of symmetry. Symmetri- 

 cal animals are as a rule dioecious. Xo hermaphrodite is 

 found among the Insects, Fishes, Reptiles, Birds, and 

 Mammalia. 



2313. If such occur, they are formations that have 

 remained persistent at the lower stage of development, 

 or upon the transition of the embryo through the mollusc- 

 ous type of organization ; they are thus monstrosities, 

 or malformations. 



2314. These malformations also, when occurring in 

 the higher animals, can never possess more than one 

 testicle and one ovarium. The uterus then ranks midway 

 between its condition as such, and that of a prostate 

 gland ; the spermatic tube or urethra opens after a female 

 fashion below the root of the penis. 



Impregnation. 



2315. Since the male sex is related to the female, as 

 corolla to capsule, as leaf to stalk, as air to water, and 

 as light to matter ; so is it related also as integument 

 to intestine, as lung to lymphatic vessel, as artery to vein, 

 as nerve to flesh or muscle, as Animal to Vegetative. 



2316. Copulation is therefore an irradiation. 



2317. Already, in the course of the heavenly bodies, 

 has the highest act of the animal, that of copulation, 

 been preindicated or portrayed. The creation of the 

 universe or world is itself nothing but an act of im- 

 pregnation. The sex is prognosticated from the beginning, 



