3069. The animal kingdom is only a dismemberment of the highest animal, i. e. of Man.
3070. Animals become nobler in rank, the greater the number of organs which are collectively liberated or severed from the Grand animal, and which enter into combination. An animal, which e. g. lived only as intestine, would be, doubtless, inferior to one which with the intestine were to combine a skin; and that animal again must be regarded as higher than the latter, which should present, in addition to these organs, vessels, liver, branchiæ, tracheæ, and lastly bones, &c.
3071. Animals are gradually perfected, entirely like the single animal body, by adding organ unto organ. The animal kingdom is developed through the multiplication of the organs.
3072. Each animal ranks therefore above the other; two of them never stand upon an equal plane or level. Animals are distinguished by their position of stages or degrees from each other, by the number of their different organs, but not by the division of a single organ.
3073. The animal system cannot be arbitrarily disposed according to this or that organ, just as it may chance to meet the eye; but only in accordance with the rigid prescripts of the animal body's genesis.
3074. The animal body separates into two series of organs, which, corresponding with, pursue a proximal course in relation to, each other; into the Anatomical systems and the Sensorial organs, unto which the sexual parts appertain.
3075. The number of the sensorial organs is 5, and they thus stand according to their genetic development one above the other:
Tactile sense or Skin.
Gustatory sense or Tongue.
Olfactory sense or Nose.
Auditory sense or Ear.
Optical sense or Eye.
3076. In animals, which are characterized by the sense of feeling or touch, the other sensorial organs must be either still wanting, or if present but imperfectly conditioned, i. e. not constituted like those of man, who is the type, pattern, or paragon for every formation.
3077. Their sensations are limited to those of general touch or feeling, and of those derived through the medium of the other senses we meet with but feeble manifestations.