494 BEOLOGY. 



III. ZOOLOGY. 



3065. Zoology is Zoogeny divided and self-substan- 

 tially represented. What in Zoogeny was the organ of 

 a single indivisible animal here becomes the organ of a 

 separated animal, or becomes a self-substantial animal. 



3066. The self-substantial animals are only parts of 

 the Great animal, which is the Animal Kingdom. 



3067. The animal kingdom is only one animal, i. e. 

 the representation of animality with all its organs, each 

 of which is a whole for itself. 



3068. A single animal originates, if a single organ 

 frees itself from the general animal body, and yet exercises 

 the essential animal functions. 



3069. The animal kingdom is only a dismemberment 

 of the highest animal, i. e. of Man. 



3070. Animals become nobler in rank, the greater the 

 number of organs which are collectively liberated or 

 severed from the Grand animal, and which enter into com- 

 bination. An animal, which e. g. lived only as intestine, 

 would be, doubtless, inferior to one which with the intes- 

 tine were to combine a skin; and that animal again 

 must be regarded as higher than the latter, which should 

 present, in addition to these organs, vessels, liver, 

 branchiae, tracheae, and lastly bones, &c. 



3071. Animals are gradually perfected, . entirely like 

 the single animal body, by adding organ unto organ. 

 The animal kingdom is developed through the multipli- 

 cation of the organs. 



3072. Each animal ranks therefore above the other; 

 two of them never stand upon an equal plane or level. 

 Animals are distinguished by their position of stages or 

 degrees from each other, by the number of their dif- 

 ferent organs, but not by the division of a single organ. 



3073. The animal system cannot be arbitrarily dis- 

 posed according to this or that organ, just as it may 



