226 LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 



ference ! Why I know there are many differences ! 

 A man does not bear leaves, and look green ; and a 

 cabbage has neither arms nor less : and thousrh it 



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has as good a heart as many who rejoice in the 

 name and nature of man, still that heart contains 

 no blood. But what of all this ? To constitute an 

 analogy, it is not necessary that there should be 

 agreement in every particular. At this rate, there 

 would be no analogy between man and woman, nor 

 even between man and man ; for there are, probably, 

 no two men in existence exactly alike. But, in all 

 that concerns our present purpose, the man and the 

 plant are perfectly analogous ; they are both li ving 

 beings, destined to exist under certain circum- 

 stances living systems, destined to occupy a certain 

 position within the circumference of that circle 

 of existences which constitutes the universal whole. 

 We have seen, and we know, that we cannot re- 

 move the one (that is, the plant) from its pre- 

 scribed position, without great injury to its health : 

 why, then, do we presume that we may, neverthe- 

 less, remove the other with impunity ? Those who 

 are not conversant with animal and vegetable phy- 

 siology will be astonished, upon examination of 

 the subject, to find how little, indeed, is the real 

 and essential difference between plants and animals. 



