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attained self-substantiality. Each eye is a free animal 

 in the animal body. Each eye is therefore circumscribed 

 by its own integument is a free animal. It is endowed, 

 like the hand, with omnilateral motion ; it has cavities, 

 i. e. its bodily cavities and humours, or inclosed masses 

 viscera. 



2515. An organ, which again repeats in its miniature 

 the whole animal itself, of which it is only a part, must 

 necessarily be the highest point unto which an organism 

 can attain. With the eye the organization, and conse- 

 quently nature, has been concluded. 



2516. The eye is a parasitic animal, of the same kind 

 with the animal upon which it exists. 



2517. In a certain sense all sensorial organs are 

 parasitic animals in the animal ; only they are not all of the 

 same kind with it. No one of the other senses has e. g. 

 repeated all lower systems in itself, and it is therefore 

 to be regarded only as a subordinate or half-animal, 

 which lives upon that which is more perfect. 



Senses of the Sexual Animal. 



2518. In essaying to speak concerning the sensorial 

 organs of the sexual animal, we shall only encounter in 

 the latter the emotions of the vegetative senses, and 

 these indeed disposed according to their rank. 



2519. The sense of feeling is most perfectly developed 

 in the legs, whereof the pelvis represents the scapula. 



2520. The external sexual parts are the analogues of 

 the gustatory sense ; the female parts being indeed those of 

 the mouth; the male, which are frequently furnished 

 with bone, of the tongue. The jaws are not repeated in 

 a sexual animal, except in Insects, namely, as the pha- 

 ryngeal maxillae. 



2521. The analogue of the nose is wholly stunted, 

 and is only left persistent as a trachea or air-tube in the 

 urethra. 



2522. In other respects the cavity of the sexual parts is 

 a trunk-cavity " per se," like the thoracic and abdominal ; 

 the pelvic cavity contains the viscera of a whole animal. 



