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that of pain. Of the propriety of this fentiment, 

 I was witnefs to an inftance, at a country- feat 

 in Normandy. Walking in one of the adjoining 

 fields, with a young gentleman, who was the pro 

 prietor of them ; we perceived bulls a-fighting. 

 He ran up to them, with his flaff brand ilhed, and 

 the poor animals inftantly gave up their conten- 

 tion. He prefently went up to the moft ferocious 

 of the tribe, and began to tickle him, with his fin- 

 gers, at the root of the tail. The animal, whofe 

 eyes were flill inflamed with rage, became motion- 

 lefs, with outftretched neck, expanded noftrils, 

 tranfpiring the air with a fatisfadtion which moft 

 amufingly demonftrated the intimate correfpon- 

 dence between this extremity of his body and his 

 head. 



The duplicity of organs is farther obfervable, 

 even in vegetables, efpecially in their eflential 

 parts, fuch as the anther a of the flowers, which are 

 double bodies ; in their petals, one half of which 

 correfponds exadly to the other ; in the lobes of 

 their feed, &c. A fingle one of thefe parts, how- 

 ever, appears to me fufficient, for the expanfion 

 and the generation of the plant. This obferva- 

 tion might be extended to the very leaves, the 

 two halves of which are correfpondent in mod ve- 

 getables ; and if any one of them recedes from this 



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