

1 



I 



* 



\ 





\ 



Sect. XIX. 7. i. 



OF FLOWERS. 



557 



th 



nr nutriment, as mentioned in Botanic Garden, Vol. I. 

 Canto I. 1. 278, note ; which conftitutes the moft beautiful and mofl 



benevolent part of the great fyftem of 



Thirdly 



animals, and, I fuppofe, vegetables 



pleafure 



the reprodudion of their fp 



d 



here feeds are difperfed 



foil, and the eggs of fome animals and of many infeds 



buried beneath 



to be 



ved and hatched by the warmth of th 



fun ; there can be no pain in thefe cafes inflidled on the moth 

 they are deftroyed by animals or by infeds, as 



{he is unconfcious of 



animal exiftence mufl perifh in procefs of time 



repe 



their deflrudion/ 

 Fourthly, as all 

 by the inirritability and confequent debiUty occafioned by th 

 tition of ftim-ulus, which is termed habit, and appears to be an uni- 

 verfal law of nature : - it is fo ordered, that as foon as any organized 

 beino- becomes lefs irritable and lefs fenfible, and in confequence 

 feeble or fickly, that it is deftroyed and eaten by other more irritable 

 and more fenfible, and in 



X 



feq 



moi 



vigorous organized 



beings ; as 

 ference to the healthy 

 conquer the aged and infi 

 their parents 



feds attack the weaker vegetable produ£lions in pre 



and beafts of prey more eafily catch and 



are defended by 



d th 



e 



young 



ones 



By this contrivance more pleafureable fenfation cxifts 

 the world, as the organized matter is taken from a ftate of lefs ir- 



ritability and lefs fenfibility, and co 

 that is in other words, that the old 



ted 



ftate of greater ; 



o 



whether ftat 

 y ones : wh( 



ary or locomotive ones, are tranfmigrated into youn 

 it happened, that before mankind introduced ratio 

 conquered the favage world, old age was unknown on earth 

 Finally, the aged and infirm, from their prefent ftate of 

 bility and infenfibility, lofe their 



fociety, and- 



lives with 



fs 



pain 



9 



nd which 



ceafe 



ftantly with the ftroke of death 



fomuch that death 



cannot fo properly b 



^ 



called pofit 



evil. 



as 



th 



termination of 



good 



Ta 



