AND PRACTICAL DEDUCTIONS. J3 



vegetable matter^ in the general composition and 

 continuation of the world, is divisible only, and not 

 destructible j and that therejfore, as far as we are 

 able to comprehend, the animal and vegetable 

 parts of the creation are continued and sustained 

 by transmutation : or, in other words, that the \ 

 process of nature in creating and constructing* is 

 carried on hentimiedraios of compo- 

 sition and 



Thus animals forming the superior part of 



the creation, are endowed with the powers of 



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 48tr-oymg, ^afltieatkig, digesting, and decom- 



posing the substances of both animals and 

 vegetables. 



And veetables T^ariEWie^i^^^iea* 



seem peculiarly designed by nature 

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animated world, by bringing the divided sub-( 

 stances again into union and action^"^* 



Animals devour both animals and vegetables 

 to support themselves, and by this they are at 

 the same time made instrumental in preparing 

 the food of plants, by facilitating the decom- 

 position of both animals and vegetables. 



From the peculiar organisation of vegetables, 

 their food can only be taken up in a state of 

 liquid, and water is the only vehicle by which it 

 can be administered, 



