586 ON CONCEPTION. 



phosis, viz. insects, as of spontaneously generated beings, in 

 whose ova or " primordia," as in all other seeds, the " species" 

 or immaterial " form" plainly dwells, the moving principle, as 

 it were, of those things which are to be generated), and when 

 I speak of the soul and its affections, and how art, memory, 

 and experience are to be regarded as the conceptions of the 

 brain alone. 



