3148. The intestinal animals are nothing but depressed cysts. They rank therefore upon the lowest stage of development, and consist of mucus or granular nervous mass—Protozoa, Gelatinose animals.
3149. It is an established fact that, with animals as well as plants, the first function consists in imbibition or absorption, and the body must consequently be an absorbent cyst or a pharynx, which nevertheless takes up the food in the same way that the tegumental lymphatic vessels absorb. We can therefore style these animals pharyngeal or gastric, although the name is not perfectly correct—Infusoria. Then the intestine associates with the pharynx or stomach, so that they are Intestinal animals—Polyps or Corals.
Lastly the intestine sends out absorbents, and then the animal consists of pharynx or stomach, intestine and absorbents; such may be termed an Absorbent animal—Acalephæ.
The Intestinal animals therefore divide according to the developmental stages into three Classes.
Class 1. Gastric, Vitelline Animals.
3150. The lowest animals commence with the water, which has scarcely become mucus; they are nothing but drops, vesicles, which swim about independently—Protozoa or Primitive animals.
3151. The Protozoa correspond to the vitellus or the male semen, which is nothing but vitellus in a state of solution. They are the animal semen of the planet, the animal dissolved. Animal generation cannot take a deeper commencement or origin. The stone, which is decomposed into carbon mixed with water, can become nothing less than a point. They are the animal germinal powder. The fungus is a tissue of vesicles, which dissolves directly into seeds—fungus-powder or dust. Thus, they are ovaria or testes which have dissolved into seed, fluid testes—Vitelline, Seminal animals.
3152. The vitellus or semen is point-or nerve-mass dissolved. The Vitelline animals are sentient or nerve-points, which have combined all other processes in this identical mass. The divided point-mass ranks, however, in the signification of vesicular or cellular tissue. These animals are nervose cells.
3153. Nerve-cells must originate in every water, because every water is in a state of tension with the earth and the air; thus, dissolves the former and absorbs the latter. The water itself is a digesting and respiring mucus.
3154. The nerve-cells have an internal cavity, from the surface becoming oxydized and consequently converting itself into a denser layer, or into tegument. This, however, can only take place at the expense of the internal mass, as being that alone which abuts against the external parietes and becomes rigid.