For, however vegetables have, many of them, some degrees of motion, and upon the different application of other bodies to them, do very briskly alter their figures and motions, and so have obtained the name of sensitive plants, from a motion which has some resemblance to that which in animals follows upon sensation: yet I suppose it is all bare MECHANISM; and no otherwise produced than the turning of a wild oat-beard, by the insinuation of the particles of moisture, or the shortening of a rope, by the affusion of water.
Izan ere, landarerik gehienek, higimen maila baten jabe izanik, beste gorputz batzuk aplikatzen zaizkienean beren irudi eta higidurak oso biziki aldatzen dituzten arren, horrexegatik deritzelarik landare sentiberak, animaliengan sentipenaren ondoren gertatzen den higiduraren nolabait antzekoa baitute, hala eta guztiz ere, uste dut mekanizismo hutsa dela dena, eta higidura hori sortzeko ez dela behar olo basatiaren bizarra hezetasunaren ondorioz kiribiltzeko edo soka bat bustitzean laburtzeko behar denetik ezer diferenterik.