3611. Reptiles are of the Melancholic crasis.
6. Functions of the Neuro-or Otozoa.
3612. The spirit of the thorax and limbs is here predominant, whence comes the restlessness and mechanical instinct of the Bird.
The motor sense, the ear, is the prominent one. The ear, however, is partly the sense for the Indefinite, partly for the demolition of matter. The auditory spirit is fear.
But it passes over into joy, passion, levity, if it perfectly perceives tones.
3613. With the ear and the moveable organs of voice originates a kind of language, which is in a condition to express a multitude of sentiments. The language of Birds hath not a few tones, and expresses not a few passions.
3614. The Bird knits or associates for the first time with some completeness a sense, or definite sensation, to a simple tone. The Bird hath for the first time signs, or symbols, which are not the things themselves, but only signify or mean them.
The Bird understands the relation of the spiritual expression to the organ or matter. It comprehends a connexion where none is materially, but which is only imparted by the idea.
The capacity to understand the thing in the image or idea, I call imagination, and of this Birds furnish us with very definite proofs.
Birds can therefore dream.