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Rh it is impoible ever to come to the Knowledge of its Nature, yet this we may venture to aert (there being carce any Doubt of it) that their Growth and Nourihment proceeds from some liquid Principle. For all Philoophers argee that there can be no other way of Nutrition; ome of the Chief among them having made Water to be the Original of all Things: For whatoever’s dry and without Moiture, is without Motion too; and without Motion, it’s impoible there hould be any Increae. But the Parts of a Liquid being in continual Motion one with another, and ininuating and twiting themelves into the mallest Places, are thereby very proper and apt to add not themelves only, but whatoever ele they may bring along with them, to the Increae and Growth of Bodies. Thus we ee that by the Means of Water the Plants grow, bloom, and bear Fruit; and by the Addition of that only, Stones grow together out of Sand. And there’s no doubt that Metals, Crytals, and Jewels, have