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WHEN the Demonstration from the remote Cause is said to be always Negative, by the Ingenious Author it is to be understood with this Restriction, viz. when it is larger than the Effect; and not reciprocated with it; as in the Instance which he has given; which is very true. But sometimes it may happen that the remote Cause may be equal to, and not larger than the Effect, and then it is reciprocated with it; and may be affirmed; as in this Instance. Those things which are Animals Vegetative are nourished: Plants are Animals Vegetative; and therefore they are nourished: Wherein the middle Term is the Remote Cause: For the next is the Nutritive Faculty; and yet the Syllogism proceeds in the first Figure, and is affirmed; because the remote Cause is adequate to the Effect; and reciprocate with it: For whatsoever is nourished, has a Vegetative Soul; and whatsover is not, has not, &c.