37^ Feneration. Sect, xxxdl 



and internal generation. 3. Hermaphrodite fexual generation 

 in mojl fawers, and fome infefits. Summit-bulbs of fame vegeta- 

 bles are a fexral progeny. Sexual organs in hermaphrodites are 

 feparatc, but /ecrete I dine and feminine formative particles 



from the fame niafs of blood.' IVhy fecdling apple-trees fometimes 

 re ftrnble the parent ', foretimes not. Number of fpeci.es incrcafed by 

 reciprocal generation. 4. /;/ fniple fexual generation the m.fcu- 

 line and feminine fecretions are from different maffes of blood. 

 Thefe animals were originally hermaphrodites. The mode of the 

 produclion of the new enibryon, Secretion differs from nutrition. 

 New embryon begins in move parls than one. Acquires new :ip- 

 petencieSf and fabricates fee .'parts. Sexual organs arefecon- 



dary parts, not primary ones. So is the 'difference of the male and 

 female forms. V, \etable and animal fecondary productions. 5. 

 Seeds. Eggs. Spawn differs from eggs, as it enlarges along ivith 

 the embrvon like the membranes of the fetus in ntero. XI. 1. In- 

 animate crfldls. Animated organization. Microfcopic animal- 

 cula from flagnation of vegetable and animal fluids. Do not 

 generate. 2. Second kind of animal production commences in more 

 points than one : not like microfcopic animals ; as truffles, fungi, 

 polypi, hydra. 3. Other vegetables are hermaphrodite, but both 

 their fexual glands fecreie from the fame mafs of blond. 4. Other 

 -aege tables have acquired feparatefexes, and J ecrete the prolific fiu- 

 h from different nlajfes of blood. The embryon begins in more 

 points in the more complicated animals. The primary parts fabri- 

 cate fecondiiry ones, as in the cljjsdioeciaofvcget.'Jyie^ and m fexu- 

 al ayimals. Nature is yet in her infancy. c. Spontaneous pro- 

 duction of microfcopic animalcules. Is fimilar to actual 'genera* 'ion. 

 The firfl animalcules generate others, and improve. Seedling tu- 

 lip-root. Aphis. Immutable laws imprefjed on matter. XII. 

 Conclufon. Of caufe and effccl. Ihe atomic philofophy leads t§ 

 a firfl caufe. 



I. The ingenious Dr. Hartley in his work on marl, and feme 

 other philofophers, have been of opinion, that our immortal 

 part acquires during this life certain habits of aftion or of fenti- 

 ment, which become for ever indiilolubJe, continuing after death 

 in a future itate of exidence ; and add, that if thefe habits are 

 of the malevolent kind, they muft rendtr the poffjflbr miferable 

 even in Heaven. I would apply this ingenious idea to the gener- 

 ation or production of the embryon, or new animal, which 



•rakes \o much of the form and propensities of the parent. 



Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed 



■tew animal, but is in truth a branch or elongation of the par- 

 ent : (tnce a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the 



parent ; 



