472 BIOLOGY. 



2871. The musical system of all animal laws is Speech. 



2872. Speech is the representation of all nature's 

 sonorous figures in the human organ of sound. 



2873. Through speech Man delineates himself in spi- 

 ritual outlines or sketches, which, devoid of matter (or 

 body), he sets down before himself. Such sketches are 

 easily seen through, since to them every material covering 

 is wanting, and they lie purely before the sensation, as 

 the law, the will of nature. 



2874. Through speech Man appears as a double 

 essence. He is a corporeal essence ; and the spoken 

 word appears before him in the same outlines, but without 

 body. When conversing, Man is a self-manifestation 

 unto self. 



2875. Previous to speech no self-consciousness origi- 

 nates. 



2876. Without an auditory organ there is no self- 

 consciousness. 



2877. To the organ of hearing, however, belongs also 

 the auditory nerve and the cerebellum. Without a cere- 

 bellum there is no self-consciousness. 



2878. While Man appears unto himself, he appears also 

 to change. Nature is gloomy, incomprehensible; the spirit 

 is clear, and enlightens her. 



2879. Manifestation is only possible through self- 

 manifestation ; through a doubling of itself, through its 

 expression. 



2880. Animals appear only, in so far as they are indi- 

 vidual self-manifestations of Man. 



2881. With speech Man creates unto himself his 

 world. Without speech there is no world. For the 

 Apes there is no world, but only tree-fruits, female and 

 male. 



2882. Through speech Man becomes acquainted with 

 or learns to know himself ; through it he becomes a self- 

 substantial essence, which resembles God, because it 

 creates for itself its world, and recognizes itself, i. e. 

 speaks. 



2883. Words are forms of our body mathematically 

 laid down. 



