Part IIL of the Earth. 



hies zrt the firft and m^tin Fmd^ and 

 fit Matter being fupplied unto thefe^ 

 Provifwh is thereby made for the Noti- 

 rifhment of Animals \ thefe Vegetables 

 being no other than fo many Machims 

 lerving to derive that Matter from the 

 Earthy to digeft and prepare it, for their 

 foody leifurely and by httle and little, 

 as they can admit and difpofe of it, and 

 as it is brought to them by the Mini- 

 ftration of this Fluid. That Vegetables 

 being naturally fixM and tyed always 

 to the fame place, and fb not able ( as 

 Animals are) to fhift, and leek out af- 

 ter Matter proper for their Increment, 

 ^twas indilpenfably neceffary that it 

 fliould be brought to them .-and that 

 there Ihould be fome i^gent^ thus rea- 

 dy and at hand in all places, to do 

 them that Office, and fo carry on this 

 great and important Work, For this 

 Matter being impotent, fluggifh, and 

 inactive, hath no more power to ftir^ 

 or move it felf to thefe Bodies^ thaa 

 they themlelves have to move unto it 5 

 and therefore it mufl: have lain eter- 

 nally confined to its Beds of Earth, and 

 then none of thele Bodies could ever 

 have been formed, were there not this^ 

 or the like, Agent to educe it thence^ 



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