1&6 GENERATION. Sect. XXXIX. 4. 8. 



The numerous tribes of infects without wings, from the fpi- 

 der to the fcorpion, from the Sea to the lobfter ; or with wine*. 

 from the gnat and the ant to the wafp and the dragon-fly, dif- 

 fer fo totally from -each other, and from the red-blooded claffes 

 above defcribed, both in the forms of their bodies, and their 

 modes of life ; befides the organ of fenfe, which they feem to 

 pofTels in their antennae or horns, to which it has been thought 

 by iome naturalifts, that other creatures have nothing fimilar ; 

 that it can fcarcely be fuppofed that this nation of animals could 

 have been produced by the fame kind of living filament, as the 

 red-blooded claffes above mentioned. And yet the changes 

 -which many of them undergo in their early iiate to that of their 

 maturity, are as different, as one animal can be from another. 

 As thole of the gnat, which pafTes his early Hate in water, and 

 then ftretching out his new wings, and expanding his new 

 lungs, rifes in the air -, as of the caterpillar, and bee-nymph, 

 which feed on vegetable leaves or farina, and at length burfhng 

 from their felf-foi rned graves, become beautiful winged inhab- 

 itants of dit flciesj journeying from flower to flower, and^nourifh- 

 ed by the ambrofial food of honey. 



There is Mill another clafs of animals, which are termed ver- 

 mes by Linnseus, which are without feet, or brain, and are her- 

 maphrodites, as worms, leeches, fnaiis, (heil-fiih, coralline infects, 

 and fponges ; which pofTefs the fimpieit ftructure of all animals, 

 and appear totally different from thoie already defcribed. The 

 /implicify of their ftructure, however, can afford no argument 

 againft their having been produced from a living filament as 

 above contended. 



Lafl: of all the various tribes of vegetables are to be enumera- 

 ted amongft the inferior orders of animals. Of thefe the an- 

 thers and itigmas have already been (hewn to pofTefs fome organs 

 of fenfe, to be nouriihed by honey, and to have the power of 

 generation like infects, and have thence been announced amongfl 

 the animal kingdom in Sect. XIII. and to thefe muft be added 

 the buds and bulbs which conftitute the viviparous offspring of 

 vegetation. The former I fuppofe to be beholden to a fingle 

 living filament for their feminal or amatorial procreation j and 

 the latter to the fame caufe for their lateral or branching gener- 

 ation, which they poflefs in common with the polypus, taenia, 

 and volvox -, and the fimplicity of which is an argument in fa- 

 vour of the fimilarity of its caufe. 



Linmeus fuppofes, in the Introduction to his Natural Orders, 

 that very few vegetables were at firft created, and that their 

 numbers were increafed by their intermarriages, and adds, fua- 



denffaec Creatoris leges a fimplicibus ad compofita. Many 



other 



