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taken again, In the light of animate Beings : 

 And who has not obferved in the latter, that 

 after long indiipolitions, deobjiruent to their 

 growing crifis > fuch hardly ever upon an al- 

 terative ftate, make away again tantamount 

 to what they had been retarded in their early 

 growth : No more will an Oak ftretqh it 

 away, and in the end be every way well 

 proportioned, when fuch his maladies are 

 removed, and no other lofs accrue to the 

 owner, than what the ejedted tenants at will, 

 (by which I m^ean the extirpated plants) had 

 been admitted to retard his growth in his 

 minority : And that nature has a fimilar 

 manner of procefs in all her w^orks, is well 

 known to the judicious— To bring the pre- 

 fent cafe nearer a parallel ; admitting a paf-^ 

 ture was overftockt with either horfe colts^ 

 or horned weanels ; would either after a 

 long confinement therein, and being kept 

 to a fhort allowance of proper food, ever 

 make equally as fine creatures in beauty, 

 bulk, or ftature 5 altho' afterward never fo 

 plenteoufly kept, and fed ? Is it not an ef- 

 tablifht maxim to let either have a belly full 

 when ypung and growing ? fatal alike to 

 future com^eiinefs, height, and grandeur are 

 all remoras to th^ as natural efforts of the 



Oak^ 



