2SO ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



one, do belong to the other alfo. Thus 

 Empedocles and Anaxagoras feem to 

 have reafoned, when they maintained, 

 that both fexes were conjoined in plants ; 

 that they were animated, yea and fentient 

 beings, capable of pleafure and pain, de- 

 fine and averfion, &c *♦ 



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* «« Vita et in animalibus et in plantis efle deprehenfa 

 ** eft. Anaxagoras itaque et Empedocles deQderio 

 " plantas duci aiunt; fentire item, ac triftitia voiupta- 

 ♦• tequeaffici, affirmant. Et Anaxagoras quidem, a- 

 *• nimalia ipfas efTe, et voluptate ac dolore raoveri, do- 

 *• cuit ; E foliorum fcilicet defluvio, et ex incremento, 

 *' iftud coUigens. Empedocles vero fexu:n his admif^ 

 »' tum efle arbitratus eft. Eodem mode Plato quoque 

 ♦* appetitu folum illas duci, ob vehementem fcilicet fa- 

 •• cul talis alcrlcis necefiltatem, affirmabat. Quod fi 

 " conftet plantas voluptate ac dolore affici, tum fentire 

 •« quoque rationi erit confentaneum : Et ubi hoc confti- 

 •• terit, tum appetitu quoque duci ; fi quidem fomno re- 

 *' ficiuntur, et vigiliis excitantur, rationi confentaneum 

 •* erit. Ad cundem modum fi quaeramus, an fpiritum 

 *' ducant, et fexuum miftionem babeant, an contra fit ; 

 *• multara fuper hoc ambiguitatem, et quaeflionem pro- 

 " lixam excitabimus. — Cum in plantis reperiatur, quod 

 *' uoaquaeque fpecies mafculum genus habeat et femel- 

 *• lum, et omnino quod mafculum eft afperius ac durius 



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