ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 414 
We have only to reflect on all that is faid of the 
regenerated horns and eyes, and attend to their 
admirable organization. 
It is evident, that we need not recur to germs, 
properly fo called, for explaining the reproduc. 
tion of a cutaneous or mufcular fragment. In 
the fkin and mufcles, are numerous fibrilli, ap- 
propriated to repair thefe parts, and they unfold 
only when certain accidents dire&t the nutritive 
juices towards the reparatory fibrilli around the 
edge of the wound. Large animals, and even 
mankind, prefent many remarkable inftances of 
fimilar reparations that fucceed in the offeous 
parts. 
In another place, I have explained myfelf at 
length on the various kinds of animal reproduc- 
tion. There I have afcertained the different 
meaning that may be applied to germs, and ex- 
plained the principles which feem moft appli- 
cable to each fpécies of reprodudtion (1). . The 
enlightened and philofophic reader will decide 
“between thefe principles and thofe which: are 
oppofed by our modern Epigenefifts. Undoubt- 
edly, he will not object the numerous germs 
that never unfold in newts, and other animals 
which repair their loft members, for he is not 
ignorant that the supr =ME wispom has praceed- 
ed 
(1) Palingenefic, Part. to. 
