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fore him, cutting a polypus in two, and that imme- 

 diately the two parts thus separated beto >k themselves 

 to flight, moving the one one way, aiui the otht;r 

 another. That gnat man add-, that this experiment 

 suddenly threw him into such amazement, that lor 

 some time he knew not what to think of the nature 

 of the soul. Aristotle, speaking of hm'Cts, says 

 almost the same thing ; for without naming the crea- 

 ture he speaks of, he observes, u thaf there are of 

 these animals or insects, as well as of plants and trees, 

 that propagate themselves by shoots ; and as what 

 were but the parts of a tree before, become thus dis- 

 tinct and separate trres : so in cutting one of these 

 animals," sajs AristotK, " me pieces which before 

 composed but one aftimal, became of a sudden so many 

 different individuals.* 



