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stones, or those composed of filaments, as the amlan* 

 thus; seem to constitute the passage from rough .to oi> 

 ganized solids. 



We must however allow, that this transition is not scr 

 happily effected, as those we observe in divers othejr 

 classes of terrestrial beings. : 



Organized solids are divided into two general classes ; 

 vegetable and animal. 



It is not easy to determine precisely the distinction 

 between these two classes. We cannot learly discern 

 where the vegetable terminates, or the animal coin- 

 jnencejt 



Neither the greater or less degree of simplicity in or* 

 ganization, nor the method of production, nourishing, 

 increasing, and multiplying, nor the locomotive faculty, 

 sufficiently enables us to distinguish between these twa 

 orders of beings* 



There are some animals whose structure appears as 

 aioiple as that of plants. 



What the seed and germ are to the plant, the egg anc 

 embryo are to the animal, 



The plant and animal increase in equal proportion by 

 an insensible expansion occasioned by nutrition. 



The matter received in both of them by inward sus- 

 ception, is there subject to analogous preparations.. 

 One pail serves as a clothing to the essence of the plant 

 or animal ; the rest is evacuated. 



There is in plants as well as animals a distinction of 

 sexes; and this distinction in them is followed by the 

 same essential effects that accompany the latter. Seve- 

 ral kinds of animals multiply by slips and sprigs ; and 

 there are some, that, like plants, pass their whole lives, 

 without changing their situation, 



