Part VI. of the Earth. 



follow, that there was then the fame 

 Variations of it, and qonfequently the 

 fame Alternations of Seafbns, that 

 there is. Had there been an Equality 

 of Heat, if we grant that it could have 

 produced all the Plants in Nature, 

 which 'tis impoffible it ever fhould, it 

 muft have done it indifferently and un- 

 certainly. There could be no reafon 

 why they fhould flouriflh at any one 

 fet time rather than another ; that^s 

 peculiarly the Effefl: of the Sun's Va- 

 riation. So that they muft needs 

 have been all iq Confufion, and this 

 Succellion of Things would have been 

 'quite overturned. The Plants which 

 now appear in the moft different and 

 diftant Seafons, would have been all 

 in Prime, and flourilhing together at 

 the fame time : fo that they would 

 have had Ftbrmry and A%, Juiy and 

 September^ all in one Scene. Nay, the 

 feveral Individuals of the fame kind 

 muft have been as greatly at odds : 

 one arrived to Seed , and that fully 

 ripe, and ready to flied, whilft ano- 

 ther was not fo much as come to 

 Flower, but in as differing a State 

 ^nd Hue as can be. In brief, there 



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