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nature can efcape. Animals, which violate 

 this law are punifhed by difeafes or death •, and 

 hence we behold with admiration that brutes, 

 which were defigned to be guided by inftind, 

 can by no means whatever be prevailed upon 

 to adl againft it. If by chance it happens that 

 any animal offends this way, and fuffers for it, 

 we vulgarly fay it has taken poifon j fo that ig- 

 norant people wonder, not to fay murmur at the 

 wife difpofition of the Creator, who has pro- 

 duced fo many noxious plants •, but without 

 fuiHcient reafon, for no one plant in the world 

 is univerfally poifonous, but all things are good, 

 as they came from the hands of the Creator, 

 Phyficians often mention that this ar that plant 

 is deadly, becaufe its particles are of a nature 

 apt to wound the fibres of the body or corrupt 

 the juices. But this is only refpe6lively to the 

 fpecies of animals, e. g. xhtfun-fpurge^ Fl. ^'^G. 

 has a milky juice, which caufes blotches in our 

 Ikin and hurts our fibres, and therefore it is faid 

 to be poifono:)3 ; yet the mothy Fn. 825. almoft 

 entirely lives upon tliis plant, and prefers it 

 both for tafte and nouriiliment to all others, as 

 it thrives beft upon it. Thus one animal 

 leaves that, v/hich to itfelf is poifonous, to ano- 

 ther animal, v/hich feeds upon it deliciouxly. 



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