f, ANIMALCULA OF INrUSIONS. $1 



•depofit them in the reftum of the horfe (i). 

 The fame may be faid of feveral fpecies of worms 

 breeding in the human body, and in calveSj 

 where the heat is about 99°. 



If there is fo much fimilarity in the powers of 

 animalculas germs, and the eggs of other ani- 

 mals, in refifting heat, there is ftill more relation 

 between animalcula and the animals themfelves ; 

 for the fame heat is fatal to both, or they die at 

 degrees not much different. 



Though thefe connections between germs and 

 eggs, between infufion animalcula and other ani- 

 mals, afford additional conviclion, that all the 

 operations here are according to the knor/n and 

 ordinary laws of nature, without recurring to 

 imaginary forces, ftill we w^mt further informa- 

 tion to acquire more particular, more enlarged, 

 and more correct notions of a clafs of beings, 

 which their wonderful minutenefs has removed 

 to fuch a diftance from us. Yet our curiofity ii 

 fmgularly excited concerning them, from the fa- 

 mous fyftcms of generation to which they have 

 given rife, by their myiterious mode of reproduc- 

 tion, and the uncommon qualities connecting 

 them with the reft of animated nature. ' Here 

 ' another univerfe begins,' fays M, Bonnet, 

 * of which we the Columbus and Vefpucius have 

 < but diftinguifhed the fhores, and defcribe them 

 D 2 « no^ 



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