1989. In circulation the galvanism is restricted. In the skin, intestine, air-and lymphatic vessel there is also galvanism, but distributed upon organs that are remote and subservient to different purposes.
d. Blood.
1990. The blood signifies the earth in the animal, combined with water and air.
1991. The blood is the proper nutritive matter for the animal.
1992. The blood is earth, which carries all terrestrial elements in itself, such as the air through the medium of the gills, the water through that of the intestine, and is consequently a complete planet.
1993. The blood is a fluid planet.
1994. The blood is the fluid body.
1995. The body is the fixed or rigid blood. Blood and body are wholly equivalent, have the same elements in themselves; only here the latter are stationary, there they course along. Both consist of mucus or gelatine, albumen and fibrine.
1996. The blood is half combusted mucus, the body mucus, that has been wholly subjected to combustion.
1997. After the vascular system has attained its own circulation, or to the closed galvanism, no higher development of the tegumentary formation is any longer conceivable; as little as after the blossom anything more could originate.