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not then perufed the work. Yet he has quoted 

 me, p, 219 of his New Refearches : He there 

 wifhes to give an abflraft of what is faid of the 

 formation of the chicken, after the beautiful dif- 

 covery of my illuftrious friend Haller. On read- 

 ing the pafTage, it is eafy to fee that he has not 

 had the account before him when he abridged 

 it. He evidently cites it from memory : unfor- 

 tunately 



* fervations by a young profeflbr hfere (M.de Sauflurc), 



* I am determined to limit my ideas of generation. This 



* limitation will render the pre-exijience of a being, fpecificaliy 



^ fimiiar, abfolutcly neceflary to the generation of any or-, 



* ganifed being, without reftricfting Nature to make it vi- 



* viparous or oviparous, to produce it by tha concourfe 



* of two fexes, ©r without it to eiFe(fVreproduSion byfhoots 



* or divifions. By this means we fhall comprehend all 



* phenomena,, and have germs or prolific parts, which 



* from their fubtilty may infinuate themfelves through all. 



* Thei^efore I fhall abandon, in thofe ■ clafles of infuHon 



* animalcula, and in all other organifed bodies however 



* fimple they may be, I fhall abandon, I fay, the vegeta- 



* tive power of m.atter which I formerly believed neceflary. 



* to explain thefe phea;om£na. Only a few difficulties re- 

 ' main, which may be eafily folved by the indefinite divi. 



* fion of the mierofcoplc beings from the univerfality of 



* their germs or. prolific parts, their extreme minuteneft, 



* and tlieir inflanfaneous evolution, which uniformly fua- 



* ceeds when the germ" or prolific parts are in a fuitable..- 



* fituatlon.' 



