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feed on the organic* substances, as sugar and 

 starch, which the vegetables produce. Again, vege- 

 tables consume that part of the air which is called by 

 chemists carbonic acid gas (and which is destructive 

 of animal life), and give out ox^-gen, but animals con- 

 sume oxygen and give out carbonic acid. Lastly, 

 animals have the power of voluntary motion, and 

 possess sensation, i. e. they feel by means of peculiar 

 organs, which are generally recognisable, and which 

 we call their nervous system, and plants are destitute 

 of both. Of course many exceptions wdll occur to 

 the intelligent reader, but what I have stated are the 

 general laws ; and we therefore feel justified in adding 

 a second division to our catalogue, and asserting 

 that all organic bodies (bodies possessing the capa- 

 bihty of increasing by their own intrinsic powers) 

 are divided into two classes called 



The Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms. 



Now, you will plainly see that a sea-anemone is 

 included in the former of these divisions — and 

 therefore that it is not a sea-weed. But if it is an 

 animal, may it not be a fish, as one of our friends 

 has been good enough to inform us ? Certainly 

 not, and for these reasons : — 



All those natural objects which we cannot include 

 under the head of minerals and veoetables, and are 

 consequently animals, are divided by naturalists 



* '* Organic," as ba-viiig been produced by ^ital organs. 



