214 ^^^^ Co7icluJion. 



puts on a Form quite different from what it 

 had before; or, as others hold, from an Au- 

 7^a^ or certain Effuvia^ pervading and impreg- 

 nating the female Ova: — In the firft Cafe, 

 what Similitude has this mixt feminal Mat- 

 ter to the Fafliion of a Child ? and what is 

 this Plaflic Nature that favours it with a 



Form ? In the Second Cafe, How is this 



Animalcule itielf, and the Ovum that re- 

 ceives it, generated?— Or what are the 



-Effluvia iuppofed by Others? Confider it 



^ow you pleafe, is not this as amazing as 

 the Production of the Polype ? 



When a Twig is cut off, and by planting 

 in the Earth becomes a Tree of the Kind 

 whereof it was a Part, can we account for 

 its becoming fo, any thing better than we can 

 for the like Effed: in a Polype? oris there 

 any Reafon to fuppofe Providence uncapable 

 of beflowing the fame Ability on an Ani- 

 mal ? The whole Difference is, we have 

 known the One a long while, and the other 

 is a late Difcovery, which has not yet been 

 noticed in our Syftem of animal Life : but 

 now we are become acquainted with it, let 

 us raife our Thoughts from the Creature to 

 the Creator, and not fhut our Eyes to fuch 

 vifible Marks of the invifible Operations of 

 the Deity, 



Tis 



