living organism is the relation of itself to itself in mediation, assimilation is digestion. It is the

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opposition of the subject to its immediate assimilation, so that the former stimulates itself on the

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other hand as a negative, and emerges as the process of the antithesis, the process of animal water

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(of stomach and pancreatic juices, animal lymph as such) and of animal fire (of the gall, in which

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the accomplished return of the organism into itself from its concentration in the spleen is

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determined as being for itself as active consumption).

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This animal stimulation is turned at first against the external potency, which, however, is placed

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immediately on the side of the organism by the infection (§ 277). But this stimulus, as the antithesis

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