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158 HUNTER ON THE TEETH.
These appearances shew that the living principle exists in
the several parts of the body, independent of the influence of
the brain, or circulation, and that it subsists by these or is in-
debted to them for its continuance ; and in proportion as
animals have less of brain and circulation, the living power has
less dependence on them, and becomes a more active principle
in itself; and in many animals there is no brain nor circulation,
so that this power is capable of being continued equally by all
the parts themselves, such animals being nearly similar in this
respect to vegetables.
