The philosophy of natural history / by William Smellie, member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh.

  • Smellie, William, 1740-1795.
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MDCCXCI [1791]
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Credit: The philosophy of natural history / by William Smellie, member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PHILOSOPHY o F NATURAL HISTORY. C H A P. I. Dijlinguijlymg characters of Animals^ Plants, and Minerals. —'The Analogies between the plant and ajiimal, arifing from their firuBure and organs, their growth and nourifl)- nient, their diffemination and decay, NATURAL Bodies, when viewed as they have a re- lation to man, are marked with characters fo appa- rent, that they efcape not the obfervation of the mofl: un- enlightened minds. In a fyllem where all the conRituent parts have a reciprocal dependence, and are conneded by relations fo fubtile as to elude the perception of animals, fuch obvious characters were indifpenfible. Without them, neither the affairs of human life, nor the functions of the brute creation, could be carried on. Characters of this kind are accommodated to the apprehenfion of brutes, and of vulgar men. B But,