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nature can efcape. Animals, which violate 
this law are punifhed by difeafes or death ; and 
hence we behold with admiration that brutes* 
which were defigned to be guided by inftind, 
can by no means whatever be prevailed upon 
to ad againft it. If by chance it happens that 
any animal offends this way, and fuffers for it, 
we vulgarly fay it has taken poifon ; fo that ig- 
norant people wonder, not to fay murmur at the 
wife difpofition of the Creator, who has pro- 
duced fo many noxious plants ; but without 
Efficient reafon, for no one plant in the world 
is univerfally poifonous, but all things are good, 
as they came from the hands of the Creator. 
Phyficians often mention that this or that plant 
is deadly, becaufe its particles are of a nature 
apt to wound the fibres of the body or corrupt 
the juices. But this is only refpedively to the 
fpecies of animals, e. g. the fun-fpurge^ FI. 536. / 
has a milky juice, which caufes blotches in our 
fkin and hurts our fibres, and therefore it is faid 
to be poifonons , yet the moth 9 Fn. 825. aimed 
entirely lives upon this plant, and prefers it 
both for tade and nourifhment to all others, as 
it thrives bed upon it. Thus one animal 
leaves that, which to itfelf is poifonous, to ano- 
ther animal, which feeds upon it dclicioufiy* 
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