Sect. XXXIX. GENERATION. 373 



SECT. XXXIX. 



OF GENERATION. 



Felix, qui caufas alt.3 caligine merfas 



Pandit, et cvolvit tenuifrima vincula rerum. Anon. 



Habits of acting and feeling of individuals attend the foul into a 

 future life, and attend the new embryon at the time of its produc- 

 tion. The new fpeck of entity abforbs nutriment, and receives 

 oxygene. Spreads the terminations of its veffels en cells, which 

 communicate with the arteries of the uterus » fometimes with thofe 

 of the peritoneum. Afterwards it /wallows the liquor amnii 9 

 which it produces by its irritation from the uterus, or peritoneum* 

 Like infecls in the heads of calves and Jheep. IVhy the white of 

 egg is of two confifiencies. Why nothing is found in quadrupeds 

 f imilar to the yo/k^ nor in mofil vegetable feeds. II. I. Fggs 

 ■ of frogrs andfiifih impregnated out of their bodies. Eggs of fowls 

 'which a"--e not fecundated, contain only the nutriment for the embry- 

 on. The embryon is produced by the male, and the nutriment by 

 the female. ^ Animalcula infemine. Profifion of nature's births. 

 2. Vegetables viviparous. Buds and, bulbs have each a father but 

 no mother. Veffels of the leaf and bud inojeutate. The paternal 

 offsp ring exactly refembles the parent. 3 . hi feci s impregnated for 

 fix generations. Polypus branches like buds. Craping roots. 

 Viviparous flowers. Tcenia, volvox. Eve from Adam's rib. 

 Semen not ajlimulus to the epg. III. 1. Embryons not original- 

 ly created within other embryons. Organized matter is not Jo mi- 

 nute. 2. All the parts of the embryon are not formed in the male 

 parent. Crabs produce their legs, worms produce their heads and 

 tails. In wens, cancers, and i> ft animations, new veffels are form- 

 ed. Mules partake of the forms of both parents. Hair and 

 nails grow by elongation, not by difiention. 3. Organic particles 

 of Buff on. IV. 1. Rudiment of the embryon a fimpfe living f la- 

 ment, becomes a living ring, and then a living tube. 2. It ac- 

 quires new irritabilities, and fenfibilities with new organizations, 

 as in wounded f flails, pofpi, moths, gnats, tad-poles. Hence new 

 parts are acquired by addition not by difiention. 3. All parts of 

 the body grow if not confined. 4. Fetufes deficient at their ex- 

 tremities, or have a duplicature of parts. Monfirous births. 

 Double parts of vegetables. 5. Mules cannot be formed by dif- 

 tention of the feminal ens . 6. Families of animals from a mix-' 

 ture of their orders. Mules imperfect. 7. Animal appetency 

 like chemical affinity. Vis fabricatrix and medicatrix of nature. 



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