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by this means, without the action of a fire* 

 fuppofed to be included within the putre- 

 fying fubjed. Wherefore according to the 



old Axiom, Entia non funt temere neque 

 abfque necejjitate multiplicanda. 



If the notion of fermentation be retrained 

 to the greater repelling degrees of fermen- 

 tation, in which ienfe it has commonly 

 been underftood ; then it is as certain, that 

 the juices of vegetables and animals do not 

 ferment in a healthy ftate, as it is, that they 

 do not at the fame time coalefce and difu- 

 nite : But if fermentation be taken in a 

 larger fenfe, for any the fmalleft to the grea- 

 ter!: degree of inteftine motion of the par- 

 ticles of a fluid, then all vegetable and ani*- 

 mal fluids are in a natural ftate, in fome 

 degree of ferment, for they abound both with 

 elaftick and fulphureous particles : And it 

 may with as much rcafon be argued, that 

 there is no degree of warmth in animals 

 and vegetables, becaufe a great degree of 

 heat will caufe a folution of continuity, as 

 to fay, there is no degree of ferment in the 

 fluids of thofc bodies, becaufe a great repel- 

 ling degree of ferment will mod certainly 



duTolvc them. 



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