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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XIX. y. i 



VII. ne Happinefs of Organic Li'ife. 



All organized nature may be divided into ftationary organizations, 

 and locomotive organizations ; the former of which are called vege- 

 tables, and the latter animals. All thofe parts of vegetables, which 



ft nutritious to anim 



fift. as obferved above, of aliment 



fecreted from the vegetable blood, and laid up in refervoirs for th 



future fuftenance of th 



mbryon or infant progeny ; which 



fervoirs are plundered by locomotive animals, and devoured along 



with the progeny, they were defigned to fupp 



dd 



th 



that 



the ftrong 



locomot 



ma 



devour the weaker 



mercy 



Such is the condition of organic nature 



f 



hofe fir ft 



w 



mio-ht be cxprefTed in the words, '* Eat or be eaten !" and which 



would feem to be one great flaughter-houfe, one 

 rapacity and injuftice ! 



fal fcene of 



I. Where ftiall we find a benevolent id 



to 



fole us amid fa 



hope the fympathizing reader w 



much apparent mifery ? — I 



think the following account of the happinefs, which organized be 



acquire from irritation on 



v.* 



mpertinently inferted in th 



their happinefs derived from imagination and volition may be treated 

 of in fome future work. 



It may firft be obferved, that the feeds of plants and the eggs of 



anim 



when they have left the pericarp or uterus, and h 



yet commenced th 



; mothe 



new growth upon the foil 



ath th 



gs of th 



life 



jr, exift in a torpid ftate, not poffefTed of fenfitive 

 d cannot therefore at this time be fuppofed to fufFer pain, 

 when they are deftroyed by other animals ; though thofe animals 

 obtain pleafure from the a6livity, into which their vafcular fyftems 

 are excited by the ftimulus of the aliment thus fupplied. 



Secondly, that the young of la£lefcent animals both acquire and 

 communicate pleafure to the enamoured mother, from whom they 



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receive 



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