SECT. XXXDC. GENERATION, 373 



SECT. XXXIX. 



OF GENERAITON. 



Felix, qui caufas alta caligine merfas 



Pandit, et evolvit tenuiflima vincula rerun*. ANON. 



-I. Habits ofacJing and feeling of individuals attend the foul into a 

 future life^ and attend the ne r w embryon at the time of its produc~ 

 tion. The new fpeck of entity abjorbs nutriment, 'and receives 

 oxygene. Spreads the terminations of its ve/Jels on cells , which 

 communicate with the arteries of the uterus ; Jometimes 'with thofe 

 of the peritoneum. Afterwards it fwallows the liquor amnii, 

 which it produces by its irritation from the uterus^ or peritoneum. 

 Like infefts 'in the heads of calves andjheep Why the white of 

 egg is of two con/tftences. Why nothing is found in quadrupeds 

 jimilar to the yolk, nor in moft vegetable feeds. II. I. Eggs 

 of frogs and jft/h impregnated out of their bodies. Eggs of fowls 

 which are not fecundated, contain only the nutriment of the embry- 

 on. *Ihe embryon is produced by the male, and the nutriment by 

 the female Animalcula in femine. Profufion of nature's births. 

 2. Vegetables viviparous. Buds and bulbs have each a father but 

 no mother. Veffels of the leaf and bud inofculate. The paternal 

 efeml' 



^spring exacJly refembles the parent 3 . In/eels impregnated for 

 Jtx generations* Polypus branches like buds Creeping roots. 

 Viviparous flowers. Tania, volvox. Eve from Adam's rib. 

 Semen not a Jlimulus to the egg. III. I Embryons not original- 

 ly created within other embryons Organized matter is not Jo mi- 

 nute. 2. All the parts of the embryon are not firmed in the male 

 parent. Crabs produce their legs, 'worms produce their heads and 

 tails. In wens, cancer 's, and inflammations , neiuvejjelt are form- 

 ed. Mules partake of the forms ff both parents. Hair and 

 nails grow by elongation, not by diflenticn. 3. Organic particles 

 of Buff on. IV. I. Rudiment of the embryon a Jimple living Jita* 

 ment) becomes a living ring, and then a living tube. 2. It ac- 

 quires new irr liabilities > and fenftbilities with new organizations, 

 as in wounded fnails, polypi, moths, gnats, tad-poles* Hence new 

 parts are acquired by addition not by di/tention. 3. All parts of 

 the body grow if not confined. 4. Fetufes deficient at their ex- 

 tremities, or have a duplicature of parts. Monflrous birthst 

 Double parts of vegetables. 5 , Mules cannot be formed by dif- 

 tention of thefeminalens. 6. Families of animals from a mix- 

 ture of their orders. Mules imperfecl. 7, Animal appetency 

 like chemical affinity. Visfatricatrix and medicatrix of nature, 



8. The 



