478 BIOLOGY. 



As being the intestine of the vegetal animal it receives 

 the fermented product of digestion, or the excrement, 

 and conveys it backwards towards the sexual orifice or 

 mouth. 



2931. The intestinal function of the sexual animal is 

 an act of vomition. The evacuation is an act of vomi- 

 tion, seeing that the intestinal contents are moved back- 

 wards. 



2932. The sexual stomach is the rectum. In it the 

 excrementitious matter is accumulated, so that it may 

 be ready for being broken away in the process of eva- 

 cuation. 



2933. The commencement of the sexual intestine is 

 the caecum, its extremity the anus. 



2. Functions of tJie Sexual Lung. 



2934. We may distinguish two circulations, the 

 splanchnic or visceral, which takes place between the 

 lung, intestine, and liver, and the great circulation, 

 which instead of going to the viscera passes to the other 

 organs, and is called the bodily or systemic circulation. 

 The liver excretes the product which results from the 

 splanchnic circulation; the systemic circulation has its 

 organ also, but one which does not secrete a special, but 

 general product. 



2935. The general secernent organ of the whole body 

 together with all its systems is the sexual system, which 

 having been elevated by virtue of this general character 

 to the rank even of an animal, is a true sexual animal. 

 That which is a general and not a partial excretion, is 

 imparted by the sexual animal. It is the animal re- 

 versed. 



2936. Thus the secernent organ of the general cir- 

 culation must belong to the sexual system, and perform 

 in it that which the liver, or in other words the reverse 

 of the lungs, has done in the splanchnic circulation. 

 The kidneys are the lungs reversed. 



2937. If the bile be an extract from the visceral blood, 

 so is the urine an extract from the body's blood, and 



