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 former, that is the vinous and acetous fermentations."

Now may we not from hence fairly conclude, that the vinous and acetous fermentation are the means by which the vegetable is perfected into the animal? Putrefaction, the abhorrence of animal nature, the only fermentation of which a corpſe is capable, ſeems to be the means that nature employs to reduce a dead body, or rather a body diſorganized, to a ſtate ſuſceptible of vegetation. Hence the circle ſeems to be—vegetation, animalization, putrefaction, and again vegetation. Hence the ſtomach has a double taſk to perform on a corpſe or putrefying ſubſtance, viz. to raiſe it to vegetation, and then to animalization.