1788. Sensation is therefore a positing of want in the animal. Through sensation nothing comes into, but rather something passes out of us.
1789. The animal vesicle is a sentient or feeling blossom.
SEXUAL ANIMAL.
1790. As the essence of the blossom consists in the sex, so indeed is the blossom none other than the sexual system; thus it may be said that the animal vesicle is none other than a sentient Sexual cyst. This discovery is of the highest importance for the whole of zoosophy.
1791. Two fundamental properties are originally combined in the animal, at the very instant when an animal can exist. There is never one without the other, never simply sensation, but also motion; but the latter is not simply this, but is at once also a movement of copulation. The animal is a sentient genital.
1792. Both fundamental properties are however subordinated to each other. The basis of the animal organism is the sexual system; with this the animal commences; what is further developed in addition thereunto, is only higher completion. But what it, as sexual system, does, it does only through sensation.
1793. It is natural that the animal has not been concluded with the sentient sexual system; but that the terrestrial processes also are developed like as in the plant, and perfected indeed more individually than in the latter. The main distinction is, however, this; that these processes have preceded in the plant, and the sexual system grown out of them; in the animal, on the other hand, the sexual system is the foundation, the root, out of which these processes grow forth. The first and simplest animal vesicle is a sexual cyst, a matrix or womb.
SENSITIVE ANIMAL.
1794. The animal is a twofold representation of the organization, being at one time the planetary, and at one time the solar. There is a planetary animal and a solar animal in the higher organism. The planetary animal is the plant in the animal, the galvanic animal; the solar animal is the sentient, the light-or æther-animal.
1795. The highest completion of the vegetable animal is in the blossom. There is thus a sexual or Sex's animal and a sensitive or Sensation's animal.