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Sect. XIX. 7 



OF FLOWERS 



559 



and though I commlferate the evHsof all organic being, Homofum 



humani nihil a me alienum puto." 



2. 



The vafcular fyftems of 



by the ftinaulus of th 

 Crete; and when 



fluid 



mal bodies 

 which they abforb 



xcited into a6lioii 

 r-'irrnlate. and fe- 



th 



aion is exerted in its natural or nioft ufual 



It IS attended with agreeable fenfation 



<^uantity_ 



the pleafure of organized exiftence 



r 



mals 



which cbnft 

 Thefe vafcular aaions of 



hich perform digeftion, fanguification, and fecret 



srr r ;;rs™ ;;. ....w.. i... r^^:::^ 



into mufcl 



membranes, nerves. 



and more folid materials ; as into muiLic, . .v.... 



b^nes. and fhells ; at the fa.,e tl.e that pleafur^le fenfat.on e^^ 



th 



a6livity of th 



fyftem 



The vafcular aftions of vegetabL., 



convert 



which perform their digeftion, fanguification, and fecret.o.r, 



^.e elements of air and water, or other aliments wh.b they rece.v. 



from organized matter decompofing beneath the M, mto more com- 



to vegetable veflels, mufcles 

 ss : and a degree of pleafure 



pounded or more folid 

 membranes, nerves, 



d ligneous fibr 



memui£ii.ics, h^l^^^j © i.i.^.,4 



able fenfation muft be fuppofed from the ftrongeft analogy to attend 



this aaivity of their fyftems. , j ,^ >. . 



Many of the materials, which have been thus produced by th 





dio-eftion and fecretion of organized bein 



and have given pleafure 



their produd 



death 



f th 



have been flow in their decompofition after th 



originally thu 



creature ; as 



the fliells of fifli were 



formed, and were left at the bottom of 



they became 



wonderfully accumulated 



wer 



afterwards elevated by fubm 



fires, : 

 flirata 



lO. I. 



d conftitute at this day the immenfe rocks 

 f limefl:one, chalk, -ai 



d marble 



and unmeafured 

 As mentioned in Se£l. X. 



Thefl 



which are incumbent 



the calc 



which 



m 



are all of them be 



conflfl: of coals, fand, iron, clay, and 



lieved to have been originally the produds chiefly of vegetable orga^ 



aization v whatever changes they have fuice undergone la the long 



ogrels- 



P 



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