a. VEGETATIVE SENSES.
1. Vascular Senses.
2440. All senses are only conditionated by the peripheric nervous mass because they are combinations of the nervous mass with the blossoms of the inferior systems.
2441. The most general system of the animal is the vascular system, which is represented externally as integument. The animal was in the commencement nothing but integument, and this again naught but vascular and nervous mass, so that the whole integument was thus an organ of sensation.
2442. Through the integument the animal becomes an individual, or a something distinct from the aggregate of nature. Now as the integument is principally the organ of sensation, so is the primary sensation that act, by which the animal is distinguished from nature. The tegumentary sense is the sense of distinction, of limitation.
2443. Through the act of discriminating, a something foreign or extraneous is granted us. The immediate perception of what is extraneous, is called feeling. Tegumentary sense is sense of feeling.
2444. The feeling-sense is the first in the animal.
2445. It is that which is general in the animal.
2446. The whole animal is naught but a sense of feeling.
2447. Out of the feeling-sense all other senses must be developed, just as all other systems are developed out of the tegumentary formation.