Anniversary oration delivered ... before the Medical Society of London, on the general structure and physiology of plants, compared with those of animals, and the mutual convertibility of their organic elements / [John Mason Good].

  • John Mason Good
Date:
1808
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Credit: Anniversary oration delivered ... before the Medical Society of London, on the general structure and physiology of plants, compared with those of animals, and the mutual convertibility of their organic elements / [John Mason Good]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    &e But excepting in situations of this kind, ill reality, in every situation in which dead animal matter, destitute of its spirit us fatusi its divine and immortal principle, is exposed to the usual auxiliaries of putrefaction, pu¬ trefaction will necessarily ensue, and the balance will be fairly maintained:—the com¬ mon elements of vital organization will be set at liberty to commence a new career, and the animal world will restore to the vege¬ table the whole which it has antecedently derived from it. In this manner is it then, gentlemen, that nature, or rather that the God of na¬ ture is for ever unfolding that simple but beautiful round of action, that circulus itterni motus, as Beecher has elegantly ex¬ pressed it, by which every system is made to contribute to the well-being of every system, every part to the harmony and happiness of the whole : establishing his per¬ fections, confounding infidelity, and over¬ powering us, whenever we contemplate it as we ought, with the sublimest emotions of gratitude, adoration, and love. THE END. Richard Taylor and Co. Shoe-Lane.
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