or the like, it thickned there and was like other Gross, Earthly
Substances. From whence it appear'd to him that, all things were in
Reality, _One_, tho' multiplied and diversified in some certain
respects, as the Plants and Animals were.

§ 39. Then considering with himself, what that common thing must be, in
which the _Sameness_ of the Animals and Plants did consist he saw that
it must be some _Body_, like those Bodies, which had a Threefold
Dimension, _viz_, Length, Breadth, and Thickness; and that whether it
were Hot or Cold, it was like One of those other Bodies which have
neither Sense nor Nutrition, and differ'd from them only in those
Operations which arise from the Organical parts of Plants and Animals.
And that, in, all likelihood, those Operations were not Essential, but
deriv'd from something else. So that if those Operations were to be
communicated to those other Bodies, they would be like this. Considering
it therefore abstractedly, with regard to its Essence only, as stript of
those Operations, which at first sight seem'd to flow from it, he
perceiv'd that it was a _Body_, of the same kind, with those other
Bodies; upon which Contemplation, it appear'd to him that all Bodies, as
well those that had Life, as those that had not, as well those that
mov'd, as those that rested in their Natural places were _One_; Only
there were some Actions in some of them, which proceeded from their
Organical Parts; concerning which Actions he could not yet determine
whether they were Essential, or deriv'd from something without. Thus he
continu'd, considering nothing but the Nature of Bodies, and by this
means he perceiv'd, that whereas at first sight, _Things_ had appear'd
to him innumerable and not to be comprehended; _Now,_ he discovered the
whole Mass and Bulk of Creatures were in Reality only _One_.

§ 40. He continu'd in this Opinion a considerable time. Then he