The discovery of the vital principle, or physiology of man.

Date:
1838
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    CHAP. VII. The Earth. The earth has not always been its present size. Has commenced from a minute atom. All matter of animal origin: passes through three stages: solid, fluid, and aeriform, combined in each of these. Preponderance of either constitutes the egg, foetus, or animal. The earth must pass through the three periods of existence. The first ended with the Deluge. The second is now progressing. The third not yet attained. Ancient opinion on the oviform origin of the earth. “ Mundane egg’’ at Tyre. Diamond, the base of the terrestrial ovum. Deposited by the sun. Its colour black. Increase of solidity with the distance from the sun. The matter more solid than that now deposited. The earth fixed on the universal line of gravitation, and attached to the sun or heart. No light, heat, or motion in this primitive state. Its increase in size by nutriment. Spark of active life elicited by pressure. Commencement of animal and vegetable creation. Elastic web or boundary of the ovum. Life ascends from the centre to the surface, causing a three- fold division of the ovum, and production of Man, Perfect state of the ovum. Disobedience of Adam and Eve. Punishment inflicted on them. Meaning of the term 4 death.’ Consequence of man’s disobe- dience as regarded the rest of the creation. Commencement of the imperfection and dissolution of matter. Parasitical races forming the earth’s surface, produced from man’s body, in consequence of sin. Production of the organs of the earth at the terrestrial apex. First, their oval, then their foetal life. Increase in size of the earth by the repeated deposition of organs. Its twofold mode of propagation. Man, the key-stone of all organization. He is first and last in every sphere. Forms the centre and surface of the ovum. Earth was produced from decomposed solar matter. No inorganic matter in this universe. Descending and ascending creation. Man, the monarch of his sphere, and creator of all the beings around him. He originated with the first fluid drop of water. Was perfect in his pri- mary state, being formed from pure diamond. Has degenerated by gravitation. Carbonic acid gas thrown off to the earth’s apex. Its re-ascent through the internal earth, and deposition of the brain or moon. Uterus, heart, and brain of the earth. Increase of the last in the oval, and its change to the foetal, stage. External race of man propagated downwards from the galvanic or boiling point. Purity of the primeval atmosphere. Longevity of man. His size and strength proportioned to the solidity of the earth, his habitation. Gradations of colour in the race. Moral and physical darkness. Condition of other animals at that period. Deformity, the result of darkness. Ancient monuments of art, types of the beings then existing. Petrifaction of living animals at the flood. Degeneracy of man the occasion of the earth’s destruction. The Deluge caused by the condensed atmosphere produced by man. Moon changes to the foetal stage. Is converted to the heart-shape. Compresses the earth’s atmosphere. Accumulation of fluid in the centre of the earth,