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

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state, and this observation reveals to us the decomposition original: "Dekomposition". In this context, it refers to the chemical or physical analysis of a substance into its fundamental parts. of things.

In descending order, one observes that gaseous phenomena pass into liquid ones, and liquid ones into concrete ones, and in this consists the law of reduction original: "Gesetz der Reduktion". This refers to the "reducing" or condensing of matter from a thin, gaseous state into a dense, solid form..

All things, therefore, have 3 ascending and 3 descending orders, and these follow one another successively.

If we now return in ascending order to the highest possible dissection original: "Zergliederung". This term refers to the analytical process of dividing a whole into its smallest constituent parts, similar to chemical analysis. of bodies, we ultimately find, in ascending dissection, the kinds of air original: "Luftarten". In late 18th and early 19th-century science, "airs" was the standard term for what we now call gases., and among these, again, ascending relationships.

Among the kinds of air, we find the highest and most volatile in ascending order to be nitrogen original: "Stickluft". Literally translated as "choking air" or "suffocating air," this was the common German term for nitrogen before the modern "Stickstoff" was standardized., which we will therefore consider for the time being as a principle original: "Princip". A fundamental element or primary source from which other substances are derived. in ascending order.