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propriates and accumulates these already organizable materials, 

 changing them, it may be, little by little, as he destroys them, but 

 rendering them all back (those of the first class through the lungs, 

 of the second through the kidneys) finally to the earth and air, from 

 which, and in the condition in which, the vegetable took them. 



3G.3. The general relations of vegetation to the mineral and ani- 

 mal kingdoms are exhibited in the subjoined diagram. 



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