ii, SEMINAL VERMICGULI+ XQ 
CHAP. V; 
DEDUCTIONS FROM THE FACTS STATED.—M. DE 
BUFFON’S OBJECTIONS ANSWERED, 
A\s I have taken the liberty refpeétfully to re- 
mark the errors of M. de Buffon, I muft ftill 
requeft permiflion to fhow the deduétions that 
may be made from his noted theory of organic 
molecules. But to do this with the greater fuc- 
cefs, it will be neceflary to bring under our view 
fome of the chief points of that theory. 
The illuftrious French naturalift fuppofes that 
every animal and vegetable fubftance includes a 
number of organic molecules, that is, active and 
incorruptible particles. He thinks they ferve for 
the nutriment, increafe, and multiplication of all 
beings, whether entering the body of animals by 
means of food, or the fubftance of plants with 
the juices they imbibe; that they intimately pes 
netrate every part, unite there, and are indenti- 
fied, if we may fay fo, and afford nourifhment to 
the plant or animal. If either is young, it ap- 
propriates all the organic molecules, incorporat- 
sce B2 ing 
