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of it ?’’ because I don't write for such folks, but only for 
Philosophers.’ 
Hereupon I must remark that it don’t seem strange to 
me that there are still some who won’t accept of my 
propositions regarding generation : for novelties oft-times 
aren’t accepted, because men are apt to hold fast by 
what their Teachers have impressed on ’em.” 
A certain very understanding Gentleman in our Town, 
who had been reading my printed Letters, said to me: 
“Teeuwenhoek, you’ve got the truth, but it won't be 
received in your lifetime”. And therefore it doesn’t 
strike me as odd, that I meet with contradictions during 
my life.” 
Yet how the Tuba Fallopiana can perform any kind of 
sucking is to me inconceivable: and though I must confess 
I’ve often heard Doctors and Physicians talk about 
things that seem to me to have no rhyme or reason, yet 
of nothing worse than generation by an egestock and 
the Fallopian tube. ‘I'would have been better if they'd 
said “it’s a secret quality”: for of course it would have 
been too silly for learned people just to say “we don’t 
know ’’.* 
I see well that I can’t bring many learned gentlemen 
to believe in my true discoveries and also in my proposi- 
tions: but herein I find more to comfort me than for 
Be EEE ee 
' Send-brief II, p. 22. 
? Send-brief XVIII, p. 166. 
® Send-brief XVIII, p. 168. 
* Send-brief XXIII, p. 211. 
