Of Vegetation 5 % 1 
principles, from a leffer to a greater degree 
of confiftency, till they are advanced to that 
vifeid dtidile ftate, whence the feveral parts 
of vegetables are formed 5 and arg at length 
firmly compaded into hard fubftances, by 
the flying off of the watry diluting vehicle ? 
fooner or later, according to the different 
degrees of cohefion of thefe ,thus compaded 
principles. 
But when the watry particles do again 
foak into and dif-unite them, and their repel- 
ling power is thereby become fuperior to their 
attrading power ; then is the union of the 
parts of vegetables thereby fo thoroughly dif- 
folved, that this ftate of putrefadion does 
by a wife order of Providence fit them to 
refufeitate again, in new vegetable produdi- 
ons 5 whereby the nutritive fund of nature 
can never be exhaufted : Which being the 
fame both in animals and vegetables, it is 
thereby admirably fitted by a little alteration 
of its texture to nourifh either. 
Now, tho’ all the principles of vegeta* 
bles are in their due proportion neceffary 
to the produdion and perfedion of them % 
yet we generally find greater proportions 
of Oil in the more elaborate and exalted 
parts of vegetables : And thus Seeds are 
Y found 
