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ANJMALCULA OF INFUSIONS. Vk 



parts, and the fame may be faid of the reft, is pro- 

 bably by means of two germs, one deftined to 

 develope into a tail, the other into a head. The 

 foul of the worm when entire refided in the head, 

 admitting in general that it refides there in ani- 

 mals. It will alfo refide in the fame part of the 

 regenerated worm, either becaufe God has cre« 

 ated a new mind, ©r, as appears more philofophic, 

 becaufe this mind pre-exifted in the germ, and 

 only required evolution to be called into ex- 

 iftence. Behold how the feftions of a worm 

 are reproduced into new and fentient worms. 

 This with the due proportions may be transferred 

 to infufion animalcula, propagating by natural 

 divifions. Thefe, as far as yet known, may pro- 

 perly be reduced to three kinds, the tranfverfe, 

 longitudinal^ and anomalous, or irregular. By the 

 tranfverfe, the animal feparates into two parts, 

 one the anterior, the other the pofterior. As in 

 the anterior the head remains entire, confequent- 

 ly the foul, xh2.tfelf, that perfonality by which a 

 beino- may be called animated, . will alfo remain 

 entire. The queftion refts on the pofterior part 

 alone. The progrefs here is the encreafe of this 

 fedion, until it becomes equal to the whole ani- 

 mal -, it affumes the figure peculiar to the ani- 

 mal's head, whether pomted, curved, obtufe, or 

 bell-lhaped, and if the animal is of the number 

 rihat produce whirlpools, the points generating 



a vortex 



