ct 



vn. 



3.5, 



I 



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le 



I 



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ariL 



s» 



c 



^^'oiili 



P^rtof^l^ 



tie lou, 



em 



cr 



pari 



mule 

 that th 



Pfogeni 



coni' 



e new 



^er-duft previ. 



not produce a 

 Tiales } 



ved from 



re prolix invef- 



* the planets, or 



bodies to each 

 the attraction 



Hied. 



feem to bs 



of the bodies 

 the other. 



K faid to F 

 > former appe^^^ 



, attra* 



3 



ices 



» 



Df it 



r:ipP 



ears to po 



bbe 



un'it^ 



of 



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:et, 



ru 



Sect. VII. S'7 



REPRODUCTION. 



125 



lafs, filk, air ; and laftly, the 



many other bodies refufe to do fo, as < 



fpecific attraaion of the rubbed fealing-wax can be withdraw 



flored 



which may be added, that fome chem 



combinat 



may arife from the fingle attraaion of one body, and the aptitude I 



; or they may be owing to reciprocal attrac 

 as in what is termed by the chemifts doubl 



\^ 



feparate thofe bo 



be attraaed of another ; or 

 tions of the two bodies, as i 

 affinity, which is known to be fo powerful 

 dies, which are held together by the fingle attraaion probably of one 

 of them to the other, which other poffeffes only an aptitude to be at- 

 traaed by the former. 



7, The above account of the tendencies to union by unorganized 



inanimate matter 



g 



as a philofophical analogy 



but 



facilitate 



ption of the adjunaions or concretions obfervable 



in organized or animated bod 



which 



ft 



th 



format 



their nutrition, and their growth. Thefe may be divided into two 

 kinds ; firft the junaion or union of animated bodies with inanimate 

 matter, as when fruit or flefh is fwallowed into the ftomach, and be- 



and 



fecond, where living parti 



the form 



nutrition, cr 



comes abforbed by the laaeals ; 

 cles coalefce or concrete togethe 

 conjunaion of the parts of living animals. 



In refpea to the former, the animal parts, as the noftrils and palate 



p offefs 



ppetency, when ftlmulated 



th 



fcent 



d flavour of 



d the inanimate m 



a. 



agreeable food, to unite themfelves with it ; ai 

 terial poiTeffes an aptitude to be thus united with the animal organ.. 

 The fame occurs when the food is fwallowed into the flomach ; the 

 mouths of the haeal veffels being agreeably ftimulated pofTefs an ap- 



petency to abforb the particles of 



digeftino!" mafs 



o 



o 



hich 



fjt 



of undergoing chem 



ch 



D 



nd polfeffes at fome pe 



fiod of them an aptitude to be united with the mouths of the abfor- 

 b'ent kaeals. 



But when thefe abforbed particles of inanimate matter have been 

 circulated in the blood, they feem gradually to obtain a kind of vi- 



8 



tallty ;; 



