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themselves. Those coral flowers, so irmdi celebrate, f 5 



were real polyuusses, and this is Another truth- 



wherewith tiie polypus Iras enriched tire- physical 

 world, 



15). Organized bodies a re' tissues Avfricii are" more or 

 less fine pieces of net-work, or* pieces of stuff, whose 

 iv&rp itself forms the woofi b\ an art which we should 

 think v.t: could .never enough admire, were we acquaint- 

 ed "with it. Fossils are 'A kind of iulaid work: we do 

 not know- where the orpani/atioil ends',, nor which is 

 its- smallest term: but by ceasiv.g to organize, nature 

 i^es not cexise to dispose or arrange : she even seems 

 to organize when she has made an end of'doinjj so. One 

 would be ready torhnagiot* thafj^&nH/j^nd leawd stones 

 svere vegetables in pasjt disguised. The constant re- 

 gularity of salts and crystals ; -strikes us in an equal de^ 

 grce. We may be -assured that the crystal is formed of 

 the repetition of an infinite number of small, regular, 

 and pyramidal bodies, properly laid on each other, 

 which represent, in some measure, the whole exactly in 

 miniature. We should, notwithstanding; be very much 

 mistaken were we to consider these little pyramids as 

 the germ of the crystal;, it is, strictly speaking, no 

 more than an element; or constituent particle of it : it- 

 does not unfold hself, it remains, as it was; but it 

 serves as a support tp other similar 'pyramids which are 

 to be joined to it, and 'thus to augment the crystaiine 

 mass by successive aggregates. The crystaiine juice Is 

 Hot received, wrought, and assiiHfi&ted by strainers or 

 vessels tlytt are snore or less fir.e, or more or less 

 folded together, within the pyramid;, it is a Irea/lj en- 

 tirely prepared when it procures the union of different 

 iijolecules. into one pyraniulal vnas^, Ly virtue oF the 

 laws of motion and attrartion. This is- the primary 

 character which d 



bodies, a character wkich we oughi never to ; 

 t> t w hen we co n t|>are tc^e 1 1 1 r be s^ s tf 



0, Tb'js the bodies of giants and animals are 



