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How we came to have omitted it until now we cannot imagine, 

 but we hasten to repair the injury the learned author has 

 suffered at our hands. The work begins with twelve theses, 

 which we give at length, because we admire such of them as 

 we can understand, and because we are astonished at the 

 depth of those we don't understand, risum teneatis, that is 

 no mistake, though, perhaps, a little egotistical ; we mean, we 

 are astonished to find anything which we can't understand. 

 What connexion exists between these theses and the beetles 

 of the East Indies, we cannot at present make out. 



Theses. 

 I. 

 Per antithesin factus est mundus, et per antagonismum conser- 

 vatur. 



11. 

 In corporum coelestium genesi theoria aggregationis moment! 

 majoris est quam Vulcanismus et Neptunismus. 



III. 



Maris decrescentia non tam ab evaporatione, aut consumtione per 

 naturam organicam, quam ex penetratione versus orbis terrarnm 

 centrum deducenda. 



IV. 



Ignis in terrarum orbe centralis sane est admittendus. 



V. 



Quod sunt vires mechanicae in natura organica, id sunt vires 

 organiciE in regno animali et vegetabili ; quod sunt. vires organica; 

 in natura organica, id sunt vires psychicae in gente humana ; per 

 omnem naturam perpetua analogia, vires eaedem non qualitate sed 

 evokitione tantum diversas. 



VI. 



Expone mihi graminis humillimi indolem, tunc ego phantasiam 

 et mentis humanae agitationem tibi explicabo. 



VII. 



Conditio animalium psychica certo et exclusive ex eorum organi- 

 zatione derivari potest. 



VIII. 

 Oxygenum et pbotogenium sunt potentiae vivificoe universales. 



IX. 



Limites exacti inter initia regni utriusque oiganici non inve- 

 nicndi sunt. 



