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rotating. Every thing that is, is immate- 

 rial. Self -consciousness is a living ellipse. 



" Physico-philosophy has to portray the 

 first period of the world's development out 

 of nothing ; how the elements and heavenly 

 "bodies originated by self-evolution into 

 higher and manifold forms, then separated 

 into minerals, became finally organic, and 

 in man attained to self -consciousness. No 

 organism has been created of larger size 

 than an infusorial point. Whatever is larger 

 has not been created, but developed. Man 

 has not been created, but developed. As the 

 human body has been formed by the ex- 

 treme separation of the mucous mass, so 

 must the human mind be a separation, a 

 memberment of infusorial sensation /" 



Oken's idea of the origin of all things may 

 be traced up to MOSCHUS the Egyptian, but 

 I am not quite sure whether he did not 

 steal it from the Buddhist philosophy; 

 which is tersely expressed in the apho- 

 rism 



" Marfs mind is divine, but most divine 

 when nearest nothing." 



