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hesitation with 1 
lon 8 contended fortw! f rcatioils the vegetable world. Reaumur 
the animal nature of thl ° lnuiou i but xt is only in our- day that 
ymone may bo cited L JS? f atefactori ly established. The sea 
bonie ^ certain inferior or'Ilf ^ 6Xample of the ^semblance 
Wo af c justified in usin'*- £ w T T ^ hold, then, that 
now occupy „ m “> «gn.tc the beiug, 
»! a» “7 ‘ho structure 
1 % are the first step, i ,75 °f !?’ “ <»“«*% simple, 
rmduuentary o,g mi in , T* “ « P™Ij 
‘ypes of animat litc_th„ serorj 7m . In tbes “ ^gs-true 
on each side ot it, iLteLdirnd f ! ’ “ |,l "“ ° f *>% &- 
a higher organization, is found to radiate lfrf’ 00CUIS 111 animals 
central point, and this whether in its ,J VI habltuall y round an axis or 
We not generally an articulate st^tn ^ *«*■¥*« 
them nervous system, where it exists P’® fter terror or interior, and 
oigaus of the senses, other than those of If t ^ clevelo I Mxl - The 
“ tb ° ter P a rt of beings which Loi t rr ^ aH ° gether a ^eut 
the last division of the animSdorn g ** ** West of 
Several questions arise here- Ha tL , 
Perception? Has it consciousness! ^ Z °° phyte Sentime ^ feeling 
« insoluble - it is or, 1 „ ’ se> sensibility? The n w § ’ 
. . ’ 11 18 an abyss of obscuritv me s , n question 
egation of living beings which bear the ^ COTa ’ ° r rather the 
rock which has seen their birth ,1 SV U “ nfl ’ are attached to the 
p e nifiisoria, of microscopic Snll^ ^ »* death 
c o infinitesimally small. The Amil ’ leVolvc P er Petually in a 
>n the space of a minute chanty t’ “ amUous Proteus, which 
surprised eyes of the observer, l s in 3 bundred tim es under the 
• Yet all these beings have an existor ’ f mere atom charged with 
tative. I n their obscure and blind i f to a PP ea rance purely vege- 
mstinct ? Ho they know what takes* l ’ lme tbe y consciousness or 
ft of an inch from their 1 7 ^ ^ three ****** 
^o ww S c of ais <**» -» 
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