VEGETABLES. 97 



food for others still ; and so on in successive rounds, 

 just so long as the Almighty Worker of the universe 

 shall decide to uphold the current order of things. 

 The plants and animals, including men, that have 

 been in ages past, live in those that now are; and 

 those that now are, will live in those yet to be. Death 

 is the parent of life. 



