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and pursues its course like a holy and conservative bond 

 throughout the whole of nature. He therefore who 

 so much as questions the sex in the organic world, com- 

 prehends not the riddle or problem of the universe. 



2318. If the female parts have effected a complete 

 transition into the male, so are the sexes necessarily 

 separate and distinct. 



2319. Since the male parts are the female that have 

 been more highly developed, so there resides in the 

 latter the constant conatus or effort to convert them- 

 selves into the male. 



2320. This metamorphosis, or conversion, is, however, 

 no longer possible in the female parts, when already 

 finished or fully formed, but is only attainable in a 

 new attempt being made upon their part, to transform 

 the fluid mass into ova. 



2321. Gestation or pregnancy is none other than the 

 propensity of the Female to convert itself into the Male. 



2322. The foetus is the male in a female, or the foetus 

 is the male sexual parts in the female. 



2323. In idea, every foetus should be male. But, if 

 mascularity be attained with the first production, then the 

 second necessarily subsides into the female. In this 

 manner there of necessity originates an equiponderance 

 in the number of both sexes. 



2324. Moreover, if the sexual parts be regarded accord- 

 ing to their proper signification in the animal, they are the 

 upper intestinal system, as it has been developed in the 

 mouth, and that indeed in such a manner, that the female 

 parts are the vegetative form or the oral cavity, the male, 

 the animal form, or the tongue with the salivary glands ; 

 the former represent the process of deglutition, the latter 

 that of taste. 



2325. Into the uterus or into the prostate gland the 

 excretory ducts of the sexual glands, or the spermatic 

 canals and oviducts, pursue a convergent course, like the 

 salivary ducts do into the oral cavity. 



2326. The testes, as also the ovaria, are forebodent of 

 the salivary glands. The semen and oviducts are sali- 



