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make fabrics, such as the flax, hemp, and cotton. We should 

 never finish enumerating everything that man obtains from the 

 vegetable world, beverages, oils, woods, dyes, and a great 

 number of different substances, as will be seen when we proceed 

 to the history of animals and plants, after having spoken of 

 man. 



