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vortex begin to protrude; Therefore I have good 

 reafon to believe that a hew head is developed, 

 iand confequently that this whole begins to be ani- 

 mated by a new fentient principle. 



The theory eafily applies to longitudinal divi- 

 fion, fince it is undoubted that the foul refidej 

 in one of the lateral portions, as it refides in the 

 anterior part, where tranfverfe divifion takes place, 

 at the fame time it is certain that the other lateral 

 portion will be fully renewed, as the pofherior part 

 is in tranfverfe divifions. 1 herefore, if this por- 

 tion expands to form a real animated and fentient 

 being, it is rational to fuppcfe the fame will 

 happen to the other* 



The like may be faid of the anomaious or ir- 

 regular divifion, by which I mean the divifion of 

 an animal into more than two parts, without be- 

 ing referrible to either the longitudinal or tranf- 

 verfe. Into whatever number of parts it divides, 

 eachj in acquiring the fize and figure of the whole, 

 v/ill acquire that perfonality which conflitutes it a 

 teal animali One part only in thefe irregular di- 

 vifions does not require the developement of a 

 new foUl, that is, what formed the original head, 

 as is mod evident* 



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