Parallelism of the Animal and Vegetable Body.

All vegetative systems of the animal body being now developed, the attempt to co-ordinate them with those of the plant admits of being made.

2007. What the sexual parts correspond to in plants, needs no exposition.

2008. And just as little that the lung is the parallel organ to the leaves or foliage. The relation of the other organs is, on the contrary, difficult; the striking resemblance, however, of the sexual parts and the lungs to the same systems in plants, is ground sufficient for assuming also the parallelism of the other organs.

2009. If the root be compared with the intestine, then the stalk, as being the medium of the vascular system, must be regarded as heart.

2010. The bark will correspond to the skin, the liber to the veins, the wood as a tracheal body to the arteries.

2011. The vegetable tissue will be transformed into the lowest organs of the animal; the cells into the mucous tissue, the intercellular passages into the lacteal vessels, the tracheæ, or spiral vessels, into the lowest kind of respiratory tubes or the cutaneo-lymphatic vessels. We have accordingly the following parallel series:

A. Tissues.
1. Cells Mucous tissue.
2. DuctsAbsorbents.
3. TracheæCutaneo-absorbents.
B. Systems.
4. BarkSkin.
5. LiberVeins.
6. WoodArteries.
C. Members.
7. RootIntestine.
8. StalkHeart.
9. FoliageLung.
D. Sexual parts.
10. SeedOvum.
11. OvaryUterus.
12. CorollaTestes.

B. ANIMAL SYSTEMS.

2012. As in the blossom the light allows the whole vegetable trunk to be once more developed, though with coloured signs or marks of distinction, so also is the animal body taken up into the sense of light, and the vegetative systems are elevated unto light-or rather æther-systems.