Ideas on the Affirmative Principle of Life and the Negative Principle of Death

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and excitability original: "Erregbarkeit". A key concept in late 18th-century natural philosophy, referring to the inherent capacity of living matter to respond to stimuli. produce the variety of phenomena original: "Erscheinungen". In this philosophical context, it refers to the outward, observable manifestations of nature as perceived by the senses..

When we consider the whole of phenomena that fall under the senses, both synthetically and analytically, we discover 3 orders, namely:

1. a descending order of forces;
2. an ascending order of forms; and
3. a middle order, which modifies the forces and forms.

All bodies that appear do so in a threefold order, as:

1. in a gaseous or aeriform state,
2. in a liquid state, and
3. in a fixed or concrete state.

The science of decomposition original: "Zergliederungskunde". While this term often refers to anatomy, here it describes the chemical or physical analysis of substances into their component parts. observes in an ascending order that bodies [pass] from their aggregate original: "Aggregat". This refers to the physical state of matter or the way its particles are held together., or concrete state, into a liquid one, and from the liquid into a gaseous—