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Again, in the next place, the animal systems, such as 

 limbs, thorax and abdomen, have been most distinctly 

 represented in it. The light is seized, respired, digested, 

 and hence felt by the eye. 



2504. As the light represents chaotically the whole of 

 nature, but this material nature enters completely into 

 the animal through the processes of the trunk, so does 

 the light enter it through the eye. The eye is the chaotic 

 representation of all material processes of a body. 



2505. The limbs or members of the eye are repeated 

 in the ocular muscles and the sclerotic or bony ring ; in 

 many Fishes the eye stands upon a flexible pedicle, as 

 in the Crabs. The ocular muscles move the eye in diffe- 

 rent directions like a hand. 



2506. The sclerotic corresponds to the corium, the 

 cornea to the digital unguis, or finger-nail. 



2507. The choroid or vascular coat, is the respiratory 

 system or lung in the eye. The iris corresponds to the 

 larynx, the pupil to the glottis ; its expansion and con- 

 traction is a respiratory movement. 



2508. The choroid coat incloses also an osseous mass, 

 the lens a vertebral body. The morbid states of the lens 

 are osseous diseases, such as gout. 



2509. In the chambers of the eye, water, as being 

 a product of digestion, is constantly secreted. 



2510. The orbitar cavity is a mouth with salivary 

 glands giving vent to tears. 



2511. The lachrymal canal is a branchial duct, which 

 opens into the nose, like the Eustachian tubes did from 

 the ear into the mouth. 



2512. The eyelids consequently correspond to the lips, 

 and are in like manner fringed with hairs. 



2513. As the body has everywhere two halves, and 

 laterally also presents two entire organisms, so also is 

 the formation of the nervous system a double one. Each* 

 eye is an entire body. 



2514. In the two eyes the halves of the body have 

 completely separated as entire bodies, and each has 



