Natural Table of the Correspondences Existing Between God, Man, and the Universe

In the current physical order, we can with difficulty find proofs of this truth: as everything there is secondary, the differences between the reproductions and their Principle, though quite certain, are too little perceptible to find a place in rigorous demonstrations; and besides, when these reproductions arrive at their final term, they resume the inverse direction of the primitive productions, because the circle must close. It is for this reason that the worm, having fallen into the state of a chrysalis, emerges with the brilliance of the butterfly, from which new worms must emerge; and it is for this reason that all mortals, in plunging into the dark horrors of the earth, touch more closely the pure rays of light than when they wandered on this surface.

But if we do not have current and active proofs of the difference between first and second Principles, we have at least those of analogy. Firstly, in several experiments returned to the disposition of those who, knowing how to release the feu principe principle-fire more or less, operate material vegetations in a shorter time than that which Nature employs for the reproduction of its own. Secondly, in the precocious nubility sexual maturity of the animals that inhabit the climates near the Equator; finally, in the alteration

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