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Further, if he has the fccHng of Pleafure and Pain, he mud like- 

 wife have Appetites and DeHres, by which he feeks the one and a- 

 voids the other. " Thofe, therefore, ^vho maintain that the Plant 

 has Senfttion, muft alfo maintain that it has both Pleafure and 

 Pain, and likewife Appetites and Defires. 



Thofe, who philofophife only by fails and Experiments, will hardly 

 believe what they cannot fee with their Eyes or perceive with 

 fome other of their Senfes. They will not, therefore, be convinced 

 by this Reafoning a priori and from Final Cajifes, that the Vege- 

 table has not Senfition and a feeling of Pleafure and Pain. But, 

 luckily for thefe philofophers, there is an Experiment, which, if they 

 pleafe, they may make upon their own Bodies, and which will con- 

 vince them that the Senfitive Nature in them is quite diflindt from 

 the Vegetable ; for, if they cut the nerves of any member of their 

 Body, they will immediately perceive that they have no Senfation 

 in that member below where the nerves are cut, and yet the Vege- 

 table part there, if the artery be not cut, and if the blood coatinue 

 to circulate, will remain entire and uncorrupted. 



As the Vegetable part of the creation is intended for the fake of 

 the Animal, it is therefore more abundant, and is propagated in more 

 different Avays : For almoft all Animals are propagated only by feed 

 in the common way of generation ; whereas the Vegetable is not on- 

 ly propagated in that way, but by Slips, Grafts, Laying, Suckers 

 from the root, and even by Cuttings, in which laft way it is now 

 difcovered that all Plants, with fufficient care and attention, may be 

 propagated. 



And from hence refults a remarkable difference betwixt the Ani- 

 mal and the Vegetable ; namely, that the Vegetable Life appears to 

 be in every part of the Vegetable, whereas the Senfitive Life has 

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