STUDY X. 33 1 



tually found, as certain Naturalifls pretend, in fe- 

 veral fpecies of filhes and infeds, I am fully per- 

 fuaded, that Nature placed the habitation of the 

 male and of the female very clofe to each other, 

 and planted their nuptial couch at no great dif- 

 tance from their cradle. 



But there is a confonancy of forms, much more 

 intimate ftill than even that of the two fexes, I 

 mean the duplicity of the organs which exifts in 

 each individual. Every animal is double. If you 

 confider his two eyes, his two noflrils, his two ears, 

 the number of his legs and arms difpofed by pairs, 

 you would be tempted to fay, here are two animals 

 glued the one to the other, and united under the 

 (àme fkin. Nay, the parts of his body which are 

 fingle, as the head, the tail, and the tongue, ap- 

 pear to be formed of two halves, compaded toge- 

 ther by feams. This is not the calê with regard 

 to the members properly fo called : for example, 

 one hand, one ear, one eye, cannot be divided into 

 two fimilar halves ; but the duplicity of form in 

 the parts of the body, diftinguifhes them elfentially 

 from the members : for the part of the body is 

 double, and the member is fingle : the former is 

 always fingle and alone, and the latter always re- 

 peated. Thus, the head, and the tail, of an ani- 

 mal are parts of it's body, and the legs and ears of 

 it arc members. 



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