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LJ to Ike vessels that enclose them, the vital func- 

 i:>ns ceiite, the plant dies, and crmuUles into dust. 



Liictly, the animal, after having been preserved 

 from those diseases which conspired against- him, 

 .cannot escape old age, nor death that follows in his 

 train. 



When the vessels ur.e grown hard through time they 

 lose their action, and are stopped up. The liquors do 

 cot. circulate in them with the j^rue. degree of quickness, 

 and they are 'filtered and pumped up but in a very im- 

 .perfect manner. They stand still and are altered, and 

 .this alteration soon communicating itself to the vessels 

 that contain them, circulation ceases, the animal dies, 

 .and is reduced to dust. 



11. We .have carried the parallel between plants and 

 animals from their birth to their death. The parts of 

 Otthich they, consist very evidently establish the great 

 antilogy there is betwixt these two classes of organized 

 .bodies. 



But there are other sources of comparisons we have 

 either avoided to dwell upon, that we might not render 

 our description coi;fused, or have only slightly touched 

 upon ; under certain ,points of view. Such are those 

 presented to us, by plat-a, number, fecundity, form, 

 structure, circulation of liquors, loco-motive, f acuity, 

 feeling, and nutrition. 



We will take a transient survey of these sources, and , 

 M'ithoul endeavouring to exhaust them, content our- 

 selves with barely pointing out their most remarkable 

 and characteristical contents. 



Vegetables and animals reside in tl>e same dwelling- 

 place. Being appointed to people and adorn our globe, 

 they are dispersed over i\< whole surface, and are placed 

 lieareach other, in order ?o enable them to afford a re- 

 ciprocal assistance. Like two great trees growing in the < 

 same soil, the animal and vegetable kingdoms eutvvine 



