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Vegetable Provinces

One of the great joys of research archaic topics is the wonderful language one unearths. I just read this:

And certainly if we observe the special and peculiar accommodation and adaptation of Man, to the regiment and ordering of this lower World, we shall have reason, even without Revelation, to conclude that this was one End of the Creation of Man, to be the Vice-gerent of Almighty God, in the subordinate Regiment especially of the Animal and Vegetable Provinces.

• 22 July 2008

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  1. Reference?? You can’t post a passage like that and not say where it’s from! That’s plagiarism!! :-)

    — myshele    22. July 2008, 22:55    #

  2. Ah, I did, in fact mean to reference that (no doubt the defence of many plagiarists; however, note that I didn’t say I wrote this). It is from Sir Matthew Hale’s 1667 book The Primitive Origination of Mankind as quoted in John Black’s The Dominion of Man Edinburgh University Press 1970.

    — Jason    23. July 2008, 01:12    #

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