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3614. The Bird knits or associates for the first time 

 with some completeness a sense, or definite sensation, to 

 a simple tone. The Bird hath for the first time signs, 

 or symbols, which are not the things themselves, but only 

 signify or mean them. 



The Bird understands the relation of the spiritual 

 expression to the organ or matter. It comprehends a 

 connexion where none is materially, but which is only 

 imparted by the idea. 



The capacity to understand the thing in the image or 

 idea, I call imagination, and of this Birds furnish us 

 with very definite proofs. 



Birds can therefore dream. 



3615. Reptiles and Fishes appear to have no ideas 

 because they have no signs, or tones, indicating the 

 resolution of the organ into mind. Tor the tone is 

 none other than the ghost of the organ or animal. Fishes 

 and Reptiles do not indeed dream. 



3616. The Bird, however, appears to get no further 

 than to mere images or ideas. The conception is wanting 

 unto them. 



It has therefore no sense of shame. But possesses in 

 a full degree circumspection, desire of imitation, com- 

 parison. 



3617. To the Bird it is not simply the sensation of 

 its body that becomes, like a foreign product, objective ; 

 but its own product, its voice, as something already 

 distinct from its own mind. 



3618. It is clear, that if all the sensorial functions 

 were to become objective to the Bird, it would be self- 

 apparent and resolve itself into self-consciousness. Thus 

 does self-consciousness sprout forth gradually with the 

 sensorial functions. 



3619. Birds are of the Sanguineous temperament. 



7. Functions of the ^Estliesio- or Opkthalmozoa. 



3620. All the faculties hitherto mentioned occur here. 

 The soul of the eye is still associated with them, and 

 therewith the faculties of perception, understanding and 

 conception appear to be bestowed. 



