228" ANIMAICXTLA OF INFUSIONS, i, 



rtiind conceives the impreflions of objeds ^ by 

 them does it ad: on the members j and, by the 

 members, on every different thing. We cannof 

 conceive that a foul fhould be united to a por- 

 tion of organic matter through which no im- 

 prefHon could be tranfmitted ; and it can be 

 eafily imagined, that mind may refide in every 

 portion of organized matter provided with nerves 

 or any thing analogous. Real nerves have not 

 hitherto been difcovered in the vegetable ; but it is 

 no reafon to fuppofe them abfolutely deilitute of 

 cither nerves or fomething analogous. You have 

 read what is faid. Part lo. ch. 30. 31. Contem- 

 flation de la Nature ; and in Fart 4. de la Palin- 

 ^enefie ; to which I have nothing to add ( i ). 



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( I ) Thefe reflet5lions, on the diftindlions between the ani- 

 mal and vegetable, cannot be more profound or logical. 

 By means of the difference, the author apparently means 

 to infmuate, that we ought not to be furprifed that heat- 

 has fuch oppofite or various effeifts upon animals and vc- 

 p-etables. But this difference may be fatisfafiorily ex- 

 plained, without recurring to the diffimilarity between 

 the two kingdoms, which I told M. Bonnet in the follow- 

 ing paragraph of a letter : * When I obferved, that th: 



* fame refults did not proceed from my experiments on feeds as 



* or. animalcula ; that the longer the a6lion of heat is continued en 



* the latter., their origin is the more iinmediatCi and the number 

 ''greater ; and that the reverfe happened to thefortfier in the 



* famt 



