654 BIOLOGY. 



IV. PSYCHOLOGY. 

 FUNCTIONS OF THE ANIMALS. 



3583. The present section treats concerning the func- 

 tions of the Whole animal, just as the preceding one did 

 of those belonging to individual organs. It is at bottom 

 the psychological part of Physio-philosophy. The func- 

 tions are so numerous and difficult also to arrange, that 

 I place this section here, to point out rather its situation 

 than to follow out or trace its development. 



3584. All the functions of an entire animal are 

 spiritual or sensorial functions ; at least they are condi- 

 tionated by the senses, and I will also speak of them 

 only in this respect. The mechanical and chemical 

 functions have been already comprehended in the physio- 

 logical part. The senses only make their appearance 

 gradually in animals, and with them also the spiritual 

 functions. 



A. FUNCTIONS OF THE DERMATOZOA. 



1 . Enterozoa or Oozoa. 



3585. These animals are governed chiefly by a passive 

 sense of feeling, from their consisting for the most part 

 of a naked, homogeneous, and gelatinous integument, and 

 living in water, an element wherein the other senses can 

 be but slightly active. 



3586. Their sense of feeling stands upon the lowest 

 grade, since it is only the sensibility of the tegument, 

 there being no articulated organs of touch, so that it 

 consists only in the discrimination of an opposing object. 



The ability or power to discriminate is not yet con- 

 sciousness; for unto this a reflexion upon the object 

 discriminated is necessary. 



The Infusoria, Polypi, and Acalephse, simply feel that 

 something else is there, but they are so completely 



