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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1874 
TIME WORKS WONDERS. 
A karan exists a book whose title-page 
describes it as “ An Universal History of 
rts and Sciences : 
All 
Human ; and of All Arts, 
Liberal and Mechanical. . . By the Cheva 
lier Dennis de Coetlogon, Knt. of St. FRR 
M.D., an ber of the R 
prehensive and pretentious 
a work could not well avoid treating o 
ab the author declaring, “ As I design 
to treat this subject both as a botanist and a 
a er, and it would not be answering the 
end I have propos’d to myself to give a 
imperfect and slight idea of things without 
m as far as their first source and 
begin this treatise by its first 
ddnisinnt, which is shewing what’s meant by 
the soul of plants, and a vegetative life.” 
“ We have not,” he continues, “a more un- 
certain and vague notion of anything than that 
of soul and life. The life of spiritual substances 
seems to consist in the sole cogitation ; and 
human ings are 
live no otherwise than by cogitation. 
But what have the lives of plants, and of brutes, 
common with cogitation, or thinking? Those 
ive life which are 
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faculty is commonly attributed to the 
vegetative soul, viz., nourishing, increasing, and 
erating. ell begin by the generating 
faculty. 
“We learn from Scripture, Gen. i. I,t 
the earth has been endued from the Triem 
sra a certain seminal virtue to produce plants 
roots, which virtue, proceeding from God 
himself was not confined to the first production 
of things, but extends likewise to all future con- 
sequences of times, for the Divine Word does not 
uman voic ce, but is and 
in our Treatiseof 
Metaphysicks.” Our author—who scrupulously 
spells his substantives with a capital letter— 
sets his face any idea of 
ueladas s generation. The schools may fol 
low the opinion that the earth produces natur- 
ally all sorts of plants and herbs without the 
concurrence 0 the t 
dug up beat deep, and put into pots, after a set 
time, or season, produces several sorts of herbs 
of itself, pore wA aben seed. “ But though this 
opinion be approved by the generality, it has 
not, however, the least appearance of proba- 
p 
‘bility on its side; for who, considering with 
attention the progress of Nature, sees the mar- 
vellous mechanism E a organs of plants, 
could be it to a heavy 
and indigested mass a ve or earth? Valais 
he be pleased to apima te saree ae 
would be needless in this place ; therefor 
the Creator’s will, as far as our sepia’ and will 
continue to do so to the end of the 
active, mobile, 
and vegetative cola called soul, which 
although, in some manner, asleep in t e grain 
or seed, is, nevertheless, excited to motion by 
the heat of the s armth of the 
earth, whereby it unfolds its pea and pushes 
the plant forward,” 
All this may be familiar enough to modern 
readers ; leses follows will be less so, although 
the firs t sentence will consist of words whose 
inal or genera- 
tive faculty, whereby plants are understood 
o be productive of Aia plants, I’l 
ove this phe is 
soul, by oh it ate: and 
duces oi © lane for tion of the 
peci The oe is a little upright part 
in Ag middle of the calix, or the leaves of 
flowers, and at length becomes the young fruit, 
which i is sometimes hid in the calix, and some- 
o chives, on the tops whereof grow 
those little capsules, or knobs, c 
ic 
contrary 
stamina are a kind dfs stumbling- 
block to our cowie By for they cannot agree 
M. Tourne- 
among themselves on their a 
fort is of Saak that the stamen is nothing 
else but an i assemblage of so- 
many excretory canals for the grow- 
ing embryo of its edun juices ; and of the 
excrements he takes that farina or dust found in 
the apices to be formed. But Messrs. Pipes; > 
zeo Pa others maintain the use of the 
o be to secrete a an nid: being 
collected, hardened, and form a farina or 
gentlemen pre- 
tend that the disposition of the pistil and the 
apices about it is always such as that the farina 
may fall on its orifice. But what can be 
farina, so often oe already, for to have 
so prolifici: a virt oi aan ; 
in the apices or tops of stamina, where, when it 
becomes mature and copious enough, bursting 
is enpadikyit Ss is spilt on the head of the pistil, 
draws the n from the other parts of 
the plant into the rudiments of the fruits, and 
makes them swell. The reality of this virtue, 
which Mr. Bradley calls magnetic, is argued 
' from the same being found in wax, which is 
chiefly or wholly gathered hence by the bees. 
For the manner wherein the farina fecundifies, 
Mr. Geoffrey advances two opinions. 1. That 
the farina being of a es composition — 
and full of subtil penetrating parts (as appears 
from its sprightly odour), fling on the pistils 
the flowers, there resolves and excites a 
ig sufficient to open and unfold the 
young, plant inclosed in the embry of the 
seed. inion i 
