id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044020057964 Roget, Peter Mark Animal and vegetable physiology, considered with reference to natural theology byyy Peter Mark Roget 1836 .txt text/plain 143339 7022 63 blood of animals, which, like the elaborated sap, may be regarded as fluid nutriment, perfectly assimilated to that particular kind of organization, with which it is to be afterwards The kind of food which nature has assigned to each particular race of animals has an important influence, not merely on its internal organization, but, also, on its active powers. fices in a single organ, till we arrive, in the very lowest orders, at little more than a simple digestive cavity, performing at once the functions of the stomach and of the heart; of the accurate adaptation of the structure of the organs of assimilation to the nature of the food which is to be converted into nutriment, and of the general principle that vegetable aliment requires longer processes and a more complicated apparatus for this purpose, than that which has been already animalized. ./cache/hvd.32044020057964.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044020057964.txt