PSYCHOLOGY. 659 



3600. The Cephalozoon hath consciousness; consci- 

 ousness of its condition, of its body, but not of its head 

 and the operations therein. It has no self -consciousness. 



3601. As soon as an animal contemplates a part of 

 its body, of its world, and hath consciousness in a general 

 sense, it has also memory. For memory is a repetition 

 of its own condition, not the reiterated feeling of a foreign 

 object. 



The Acephalous or anencephalic animals have there- 

 fore no memory, because they live only in opposition 

 to the world, but never in antagonism to themselves. 

 Every perception is therefore a new one for them, because 

 it is always an actual object which excites them. Whe- 

 ther Insects have memory, has not yet been made out. 



3602. The brainless animals have no ideas, and na- 

 turally so, because they have no consciousness. 



It would appear likewise that they do not feel pain. 

 The Cephalozoa have ideas, and quite certainly pains, 

 because they become partly an object unto themselves. 



4. Functions of the Osteo- or Glossozoa. 



3603. The Fish's head is the lowest, and therefore 

 its niind also will manifest only the first function, that 

 ranks above the mind of the Acephalozoa, the memory. 



With this memory, however, all the spiritual functions, 

 exhibited by the preceding classes, but chiefly mes- 

 merism, have been bestowed. 



3604. Fishes are again provident, zealous animals, 

 that, drawn together by mysterious bands, make the 

 longest voyages, wherein they ascend and descend rivers, 

 knowing how to find their prey over miles in extent. 



All the mechanical instincts are, on the contrary, obli- 

 terated in them, as being fingerless, finned animals. Their 

 principal business is propagation Pelvic animals. 



3605. Gluttony is the principal character of the 

 Glossozoa, in so far as taste stands upon the lowest 

 stage. Touch and taste are only motion and deglutition. 



Smell becomes evidently stronger. 



The ear still ranks upon the lowest stage, but yet they 



