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able to hinder fuch an one, or make him bungle, 

 or fumble in any thing. So far the Dodlor. For 

 my Part, I flaould make no Scruple to attribute 

 the Formation of Pla?2ts, their Growth and Nu- 

 trition, to the vegetable Soul in them ; and like- 

 wife the Formation of Afzimalsy to the Vegetative 

 Power of their Souls 5 but that the Segments 

 and Cuttings of fome Plants, nay, the very 

 Chips and fmalleft Fragments of their Body, 

 Branches, or Roots, will grow and become per- 

 fect Plants themfelves, and fo the vegetable Soul, 

 if that w^ere the Architedl, would be divifible, 

 and confequently no fpiritual, or intelligent Be- 

 ing; which the Tlafiick Principle vnuG: be, as we 

 have {hewn: For that muft prefide over the 

 whole Oeconomy of the Plant, and be one fin- 

 gle Agent, which takes Care of the Bulk and 

 Figure of the Whole, and the Situation, Figure, 

 Texture of all the Parts, Root, Stalk, Branches, 

 Leaves, Flowers, Fruit, and all their VefTels* 

 and Juices. I therefore incline to Dr. Cudworth'% 

 Opinion, that God ufes for thefe Eifefts the fub- 

 ordinate Miniftry of fome inferior Plajtick Na- 

 ture ; as, in his Works of Providence, he doth of 

 Angels. . For the Defcription whereof I refer the 

 Reader to his Syjiem. 



Secondly, In particular I am difficult to be- 

 lieve, that the Bodies of Ajiimah can be form'd 

 by Matter divided and mov'd by what Laws 

 you will, or can imagine, without the immediate 

 Preiidency, Diredion, and Regulation of fome 

 intelligent Being. In the Generation,, or firft For- 

 mation of, fuppofe, the human Body out of 

 I (tho' 



