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animal abides or remains within itself ; but the self-sensa- 

 tion proceeds from both conditions. Accordingly, in 

 self-sensation the world, and the animal within the animal, 

 convene or come together. The animal is itself universe, 

 and it at the same time comprehends the great universe. 

 Now, in both conditions or in both functions has the 

 animal been turned towards the world and also towards 

 itself. In feeling it turns itself towards the world, in 

 order to adopt this spiritually into, or repel this from, 

 itself; in motion it turns itself towards the world, in 

 order to materially adopt or to repel it. In both cases 

 of assumption it turns itself towards itself. 



2538. Both these properties belong to the animal 

 body ; if individual organs are deficient in them, it hap- 

 pens therefore, from their having superadded or adduced 

 other properties, which are predominant, to the original 

 ones. This is the essence of what is animal in a living 

 body. Thus, if from an animal all the vegetable systems 

 could be subtracted, it would do nothing but feel and 

 move. 



B. FUNCTIONS OF THE ANIMAL IN SINGULARS. 

 I. Functions of the Tissues. 



a. FUNCTIONS OF THE ANIMAL TISSUES. 



1. Functions of the Point Tissue. 



2539. The point-tissue is also spiritually represented, 

 and this spiritual manifestation or expression is the 

 stamp or impress of the arrangement of the matter into 

 points. 



2540. The point-matter is the matter of sensation; 

 the sensation is, however, imparted by polarization. The 

 act of feeling is a conduction of the polarity from point to 

 point ; this is the light-polarity. This light-like polarity 

 transmitted from point to point is sensibility. 



2541. The sensibility is not the result of a peculiar 

 nervous fluid, or even of mechanical vibration, &c., of the 

 nerves ; but of an antagonism between animal and world, 

 brain and tegument, sun and planet. 



