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muscles produce, from their association, only one action 

 the motion. The most complete and perfect combina- 

 tion of the motor system with the nerves, is in the ear 

 osseo-muscular or auditory sense. 



2417. The nervous system has become a self-substan- 

 tial organ in the eye the nervous, or visual sense. 



2418. There are therefore only 5 senses ; they are 

 none other than repetitions of the anatomical systems in 

 the sensation ; they are the highest developments which 

 are possible in the lower systems, being the blossoms or 

 heads of such systems. 



2419. These systems are, however, processes of the 

 universe taken up into the organization. In its organs of 

 sense, the processes of the universe are thus felt or per- 

 ceived. The senses are world-organs, and are therefore 

 placed in contact with the world, or occupy an outward 

 position. 



2420. The vascular system is the nutritive system. 

 In it the blood coagulates into the solid parts of the 

 body. The feeling-sense is therefore sensible of the 

 nutrition or rigidifying process of the body. Now, the 

 Solid of the planet is the earth. The sense of feeling 

 perceives therefore opposition it is an earth-sense. 



2421. The function of the intestinal canal is digestion. 

 In taste, the process of digestion is felt. But digestion 

 is a solvent, a hydrapoietic process ; in taste the water is 

 therefore felt it is the water-sense. 



2422. Respiration is a process of oxydation. In smell 

 the respiratory process is felt. Oxydation is, however, 

 an air-process it is air-sense. Thus do the three vege- 

 tative senses feel the elements of the planet are pla- 

 netary senses. 



2423. The animal systems are symbols of the aether, of 

 the gravity with the heat or motion, and of the light. 



2424. The motion is only moved matter, and thus a 

 combination of the muscular and osseous system. The 

 ear therefore perceives the motion of the primary matter, 

 or the atomic motion it is gravity-sense, tether '-sense. 



2425. The light is the tension-process of the aether; to 



