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iênfations of infinity, and that (he withdraws from 

 our fenfes the perception of her Works, in order 

 to convey to our minds a more impreflive feeling 

 of them. 



ANIMAL HARMONIES OF PLANTS. 



Nature, after having eftablilhed on a foil formed 

 of fragments, infenfible and lifelefs, vegetables 

 endowed with principles of life, of growth, and 

 generation, accommodated to thefe beings which 

 had, together with thefe fame faculties, the power 

 of felf-motion, difpofitions to inhabit them, paf- 

 fions to derive their nouriihrnent from them, and 

 an inftinct which impels them to make a proper 

 choice: thefe are animals. I {hall here fpeak only 

 of the mod common relations which they have 

 with plants ; but were I to attempt a detail of 

 thofe which their innumerable tribes have with 

 the elements, with each other, and with Man, 

 whatever might be my ignorance, I mould dif* 

 clofe a multitude of fçenes fljll more worthy of 

 admiration. 



In an order entirely new, Nature has not changed 

 her Laws : (he has eftablilhed the fame harmonies 

 and the fame contrails, of animals to plants, as of 

 plants to the elements. It would appear natural 



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