Numerical System of Nature q/M.. E. Fries. 89 



A. Terrestrial (Tetluitr.es) acting together or in contact. 



a. Acting together and continuous, in their 'productions. 



1. Sensibility, or the power of motion, sensation, and con- 

 sciousness. The object of Psychology. 



2. Vitality, or the power of absorbing heterogeneous mat- 

 ter, of assimilating it to an internal circulation, and of 

 bringing forth progeny of the same nature as the parent. 

 The object of Physiology. 



b. Acting in contact, and absolute in their productions. 



3. Affinity. The object of Chemistry. 



4. Electricity. The object of Physics. 



B. Sidereal (Siderales) acting from a great distance. 



a. Reproduction. 1. Light. 



b. Production. 2. Attraction. 



§18. The productions of nature, which are coexistent with 

 these, are also considered as, 



A. Terrestrial; various in form, placed in juxtaposition 



or cohesion with each other, arranged both by terrestrial 

 and sidereal influence, and composed of parts which taken 

 together form a whole. Natural bodies properly so called ; 

 the objects of Natural History. 



a. Organic ; reproductive, composed of various definite or- 



gans, and formed by internal development. 



1. Animals, possessing sensation. The objects of Zoology. 



2. Vegetables, possessing vitality (not sensation). The 

 objects of Botany. 



b. Inorganic; productive, homogeneous, formed of particles 



in juxtaposition (and not possessing the qualities of or- 

 ganic bodies). 



3. Minerals ; ponderable. The objects of Mineralogy. 



4. Elements; imponderable. The objects of Physics. 



B. Sidereal; a system of Earths, which are spheroidal, 



very distant from each other, subject to the influence of 

 sidereal power alone, and composed of the heterogeneous, 

 but individually entire, productions of nature. Stars, 

 trie objects of Astronomy. 



a. Possessing light and attraction, reproductive, central. 



1. Suns. 



b. Possessing attractive power, but no light of their own, 

 productive, circumferential. 2. Planets. 



VEGETABLES 



are Living, insensible organic bodies. 

 § 19. The end of life (and therefore of vegetation) is two- 

 fold: the preservation of the individual and of the kind; the 

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