This
garden-annualwe
trace down
to a seed
planted in
the
spring,
and
analogy
helps us
backto the
microscopic
ovule
whence the
seed
arose.
Observation,
verifying
forecast,extends
our
knowledge
to the
flowers
and the
seeds, and
afterwards
to
thedeath
and decay
which,
sooner or
later,
ends in
diffusion,
partly
throughthe
air,
partly
through
the soil.
Here the
rise of
the
aggregate
out of
theimperceptible
and its
passage
back into
the
