Page:On the Magnet - Gilbert (1900 translation of 1600 work).djvu/153

 this way to the poles of the earth and are conformed to them. This harmony of the magnetick form is shown also in the forms of vegetables. Let A B be a twig from a branch of osier or other tree which sprouts easily. Let A be the upper part, B the lower part toward the root; divide it at C D; I say that the end D, if grafted again to C by the primer's art, grows to it; just as also if B is grafted to A, they grow together and germinate. But D being grafted on A, or C on B, they are at variance, and never grow into one another, but one of them dies on account of the inverted and inharmonious arrangement, since the vegetative force, which moves in one way, is now impelled in opposite directions.