OW. AND REVIVED. r9f 
lefs degree of reproduétion : an animal may repro- 
duce more or fewer organs: and an animal may 
be more or lefs an hermaphrodite, if hermaphro- 
difm is taken in a comprehenfive fenfe. Both 
thefe cafes are poflible, and, as we have feen, are 
realifed by faéts. But we cannot reafon thus on 
the animals reviving after death ; we cannot fay 
an animal dies more or lefs, or that. its. refurrec- 
tion is more or lefs. Death and refurrection are 
two indivifible acts, fo much, that neither has 
any gradation in the animals hitherto known ; 
and it cannot be expected in thofe we fhall here- 
after difcover. It is not that thefe animals have 
no particular gradations among themfelves, or are 
not connected by them with others of the fame 
kind: nor are they difficult to be obferved. We 
have feen the {tate to which fome animals are re- 
duced by cold: it cannot properly be called 
death, for there is a thread of life, a leffer life, 
which may connect them with refurgent animals. 
The verdure of moft plants is loft in winter : 
they have little fap, and it is motionlefs: they 
ceafe to imbibe nutriment, to grow, to multiply : 
thence are they in perfe&t ina€tion. Befides in- 
fe&ts, how many animals do we fee with this leaft 
degree of life, not excepting fome warm blooded, 
and among them birds? I am far from coin- 
ciding with Guaguin in this defcription of Muf- 
covy : Populos quofdam in Lucomonia Regione 
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