must needs be some one thing which they did all of them partake of,
which was the same to them that the Animal Spirit was to the living
Creature, and that in respect of _That_ they were all One. Whereupon,
taking a view of all the several kinds of Plants, he concluded that they
were all One and the same, by reason of that Agreement which he found in
their Actions, _viz_. their Nourishment and Growing.

§ 37. Then he Comprehended in one single Conception, the whole kinds of
Animals and Plants together, and found that they were both alike in
their Nutrition and Growing, only the Animals excell'd the Plants in
Sensation and Apprehension; and yet he had sometimes observ'd something
like it in Plants, _viz._ That some Flowers do turn themselves towards
the Sun, and that the Plants extend their Roots, that way the
Nourishment comes, and some other such like things, from whence it
appear'd to him that Plants and Animals, were One and the same, in
respect of that _One thing_ which was Common to them both; which was
indeed more perfect in the One, and more obstructed and restrained in
the other; like Water that is partly running and partly frozen. So that
he concluded that Plants and Animals were all _One_.

§ 38. He next consider'd those Bodies, which have neither Sense,
Nutrition nor Growth, such as Stones, Earth, Air, and Flame, which he
perceiv'd had all of them Three Dimensions, _viz. Length, Breadth, and
Thickness_, and that their differences consisted only in this, that some
of them were Colour'd, others not, some were Warm, others Cold, and the
like. He observ'd that those Bodies which were Warm, grew Cold, and on
the contrary, that those which were Cold grew Warm, He saw that Water
was rarified into Vapours, and Vapours again Condens'd into Water; and
that such things as were Burn't, were turn'd into Coals, Allies, Flame
and Smoak, and if in its Ascent it were intercepted by an Arch of Stone