22 BREEDING. 



adverting to an abstruse animadversion upon 

 the '' animalcuiae in semine masculino/' the 

 probable expansion or contraction of the 

 uterus, the act of generation, the crisis of 

 conception, the formatioi) and growth of the 

 foetus in embryo, with other relative con- 

 siderations that might very well bear se- 

 rious 9^nd scientific investigation, were we at 

 all iiichned to perplex, by tlie introduction 

 of conjectures calculated to promote the 

 learned lucubrations of a certain society, 

 but little to entertain the members of a 

 sporting club at Newmarket, or to improve 

 the different gradations of their numerous 

 dependents. 



The uncertainty of all human expectations 

 being therefore universally admitted, and 

 such matters of opinion only passed over as 

 can never be brought to the decisive test 

 of infallibility ; it is natural to conclude 

 (notwithstanding such casual deviations)^, 

 much more may be expected in the produce, 

 from a direct coincidence of parts with an 

 union of strength, shape, and symmetry, than 

 fiom any improper or convenient connection 

 founded only upon the heal situation of ^x^ 



