Vegetables Are Organized Bodies That Grow On

We May Lay It Down As An Incontestible Axiom, That, In All The Operations Of Art And Nature, Nothing Is Created; An Equal Quantity Of Matter Exists Both Before And After The Experiment; The Quality And Quantity Of The Elements Remain Precisely The Same; And Nothing Takes Place Beyond Changes And Modifications In The Combination Of These Elements. Upon This Principle The Whole Art Of Performing Chemical Experiments Depends: We Must Always Suppose An Exact Equality Between The Elements Of The Body Examined And Those Of The Products Of Its Analysis.

We Think Only Through The Medium Of Words. Languages Are True Analytical Methods. Algebra, Which Is Adapted To Its Purpose In Every Species Of Expression, In The Most Simple, Most Exact, And Best Manner Possible, Is At The Same Time A Language And An Analytical Method. The Art Of Reasoning Is Nothing More Than A Language Well Arranged.

I Have Had A Fairly Long Life, Above All A Very Happy One, And I Think That I Shall Be Remembered With Some Regrets And Perhaps Leave Some Reputation Behind Me. What More Could I Ask? The Events In Which I Am Involved Will Probably Save Me From The Troubles Of Old Age. I Shall Die In Full Possession Of My Faculties, And That Is Another Advantage That I Should Count Among Those That I Have Enjoyed. If I Have Any Distressing Thoughts, It Is Of Not Having Done More For My Family; To Be Unable To Give Either To Them Or To You Any Token Of My Affection And My Gratitude Is To Be Poor Indeed.

If Everything In Chemistry Is Explained In A Satisfactory Manner Without The Help Of Phlogiston, It Is By That Reason Alone Infinitely Probable That The Principle Does Not Exist; That It Is A Hypothetical Body, A Gratuitous Supposition; Indeed, It Is In The Principles Of Good Logic, Not To Multiply Bodies Without Necessity.

Languages Are True Analytical Methods.