An Animal is an Apparatus A Vegetable is an Apparatus of Combustion. of Reduction. _Burns_ Carbon _Reduces_ Carbon " Hydrogen " Hydrogen " Ammonium. " Ammonium. _Exhales_ Carbonic Acid _Fixes_ Carbonic Acid " Water " Water " Oxide of Ammonium " Oxide of Ammonium " Nitrogen, or " Nitrogen, or Azote. Azote. _Consumes_ Oxygen _Produces_ Oxygen " Proteine " Proteine " Fats " Fats " Starch " Starch " Sugar " Sugar " Gum. " Gum. _Produces_ Heat _Absorbs_ Heat. " Electricity. _Abstracts_ Electricity. _Restores_ Its elements to _Derives_ Its elements the air or from the air or earth. from the earth. _Transforms Organized_ matter _Transforms Mineral_ matter into _mineral_ into _organic_ matter. matter. Is not the wisdom of God here manifest?--The vegetable kingdom is made auxiliary to the animal, and _vice versâ_.--Yet, how? by mysterious changes, appropriations, productions, and consumptions, upon which modern researches are from time to time throwing new light; or, in other words, unfolding to us new revelations of the power and wisdom of the Great Eternal, who has condescended to give us a _spiritual_ directory, a guide to our feet, and a lamp to our path, by means of which we, who at best only see through a glass darkly, may be led into that glorious world where there are no clouds--where there is no night--where there is "no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God" doth "lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."