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comes into manifestation without its cause or concomitant. If no such characteristic forces reside in the seed, why is it that a seed of wheat does not produce mangoes, thorns, men, animals, birds &e. All things have therefore their peculiar infinite forces. As they combine with their peculiar causes, they come into manifestation. A seed contains in miniature all the features of a tree but until it combines with its external concomitants, it does not blossom. These external concomitants are (1) rain (2) earth and water. Even if rain, earth &c. combine they cannot produce a blossom unless the seed is endowed with the potentiality to blossom. A piece of stone, if sown will not give a blossom though all the three external causes combine. Even granting that all the four causes above mentioned exist, no blossom will come forth regularly unless the feature of continuity is combined with the forces of the seed. The previous action has also a great deal te do, for if there were no previous action to reckon with, the present form in which
