2 Vegetable Stanch. 



fue this method, of fearching into the nature 

 of things, from the great fuccefs that has 

 attended any attempts of this kind. 



Thus, in relation to thofe Planets which 

 revolve about our Sun, the great Philofo.- 

 pfaer of our age has , by numbering and 

 meafuring, difcovered the exaft proportions 

 that are obferved in their periodical revo- 

 lutions and diflances from their common 

 centers of motion and gravity : And that 

 God has not only comprehended the dujl 

 of the earth in a meafure, and weighed the 

 mountains in fcales, and the hills in a ba- 

 lance, Ifa, xL 12. but that he alfo holds the 

 vaft revolving Globes, of this our folar Sy- 

 flem, mod exactly poifed on their common 

 center of gravity. 



And if we reflect upon the difcoveries 

 that have been made in the animal oecono- 

 my, we fhall find that the moll: consider- 

 able and rational accounts of it have been 

 chiefly owing to the ftatical examination 

 of their fluids, viz. by enquiring what quan- 

 tity of fluids, and folids diffolved into fluids, 

 the animal daily takes in for its fupport 

 and nouriihment : And with what force 

 and different rapidities thofe fluids are car- 

 ried 



