Sec. 36.  Afterwards Contemplating the different Species of Plants, as he had done before of Animals, he perceiv’d that the Individuals of every Species were alike, both in their Boughs, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, and manner of Growing.  And comparing them with Animals, he found that there must needs be some one thing which they did all of them partake of, which was the same to them that the Animal Spirit was to the living Creature, and that in respect of That they were all One.  Whereupon, taking a view of all the several kinds of Plants, he concluded that they were all One and the same, by reason of that Agreement which he found in their Actions, viz. their Nourishment and Growing.

Sec. 37.  Then he Comprehended in one single Conception, the whole kinds of Animals and Plants together, and found that they were both alike in their Nutrition and Growing, only the Animals excell’d the Plants in Sensation and Apprehension; and yet he had sometimes observ’d something like it in Plants, viz. That some Flowers do turn themselves towards the Sun, and that the Plants extend their Roots, that way the Nourishment comes, and some other such like things, from whence it appear’d to him that Plants and Animals, were One and the same, in respect of that One thing which was Common to them both; which was indeed more perfect in the One, and more obstructed and restrained in the other; like Water that is partly running and partly frozen.  So that he concluded that Plants and Animals were all One.

Sec. 38.  He next consider’d those Bodies, which have neither Sense, Nutrition nor Growth, such as Stones, Earth, Air, and Flame, which he perceiv’d had all of them Three Dimensions, viz.  Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and that their differences consisted only in this, that some of them were Colour’d, others not, some were Warm, others Cold, and the like.  He observ’d that those Bodies which were Warm, grew Cold, and on the contrary, that those which were Cold grew Warm, He saw that Water was rarified into Vapours, and Vapours again Condens’d into Water; and that such things as were Burn’t, were turn’d into Coals, Allies, Flame and Smoak, and if in its Ascent it were intercepted by an Arch of Stone or the like, it thickned there and was like other Gross, Earthly Substances.  From whence it appear’d to him that, all things were in Reality, One, tho’ multiplied and diversified in some certain respects, as the Plants and Animals were.

Sec. 39.  Then considering with himself, what that common thing must be, in which the Sameness of the Animals and Plants did consist he saw that it must be some Body, like those Bodies, which had a Threefold Dimension, viz, Length, Breadth, and Thickness; and that whether it were Hot or Cold, it was like One of those other Bodies which have neither Sense nor Nutrition, and differ’d from them only in those Operations which arise from the Organical