58 On the Vitality of Matter. 
of England were discovered a few years since, a having 
been interred two hundred years. They were foun in their 
natural state, so far as to be readily identified, and exhibited 
every appearance of inert matter, resolved and resolving into 
elementary dust. ; 
_ The microscopic theorists having conducted us to the low- 
est gradation of existence, remark that ** physiologists can 
carry analysis no farther, except to convert the substance into 
gases by distillation.” [fs » Ww i it inci 
then? Can distillation extinguish that principle which re- 
weed death and all the i iti 
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g,” it is absurd to say that distillation, or any other 
