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8. The clanges of animals before and after nativity. Similarity 

 of their Jlrufture. Changes in them from luft> hunger, and 

 danger. All warm-blooded animals derived from one living filament* 

 Cold blooded animals , infecls^ worms , vegetables, derived alfofrom 

 one living filament. Male animals have teats. Male pigeon gives 

 milk. The world itf elf generated. The caufe ofcaufes. AJlate of 

 probation and refponfibility. V. I . Efficient caufe of the colours of 

 birds' eggs, and of hair and feathers, which become white infnowy 

 countries. Imagination of the female colours the egg. Ideas or 

 motions cf the retina imitated by the extremities of the nerves of 

 touch) or rete mucofum. 2. Nutriment fupplied by the female of 

 three kinds. Her imagination can only affecl the firft kind. 

 Mules how produced^ and mulattoes. Organs of reproduction why 

 deficient in mules. Eggs with double yolks. VI. I. Various fe- 

 cretions produced by the extremities of the veffels, as in the glands. 

 Contagious matter. Many glands affected by pleafurable ieleas, 

 as thofe which fecrete the femen. 2. Snails and worms are her- 

 maphrodite, yet cannot impregnate themfelves. Final caufe of 

 this. 3. The imagination oj the male Jurms the fex. Ideas, or 

 motions of the nerves of vifion or of touch, are imitaied by the ulti- 

 mate extremities of the glands of the tejles y which mark thefex. 

 This ejfecl of the imagination belongs only to the male. The f ex of 

 the embryon is not owing to accident. 4. Caufes of the changes in 

 animals from imagination as in monfters. From the male. From 

 the female. 5. Mifcarriages from fear. 6. Power of the 

 imagination of the male over the cdour y form ^ and f ex of the prog- 

 eny. An inftance of. *] A El of generation accompanied with 

 Ideas of the male or female form. Art of begetting beautiful chil- 

 dren of either f ex. VII. Recapitulation. VIII i. Appendix. 

 Suds are individuals. Conft/i of plumula caudex and radicle. 

 Every part of the caudex can germinate. A triple tree by ingraft- 

 ment. A lateral vegetable mule produced by three parents. Con- 

 ferva fontinalis. 2. Lateral propagation of polypus, and hydra 

 Jlentorea. The halves of two polypi made to unite. Ingraftment 

 of vegetables. Lateral mule. 3, New bud of a doubly ingrafted 

 tree has three kinds of caudex. Triple mule produced from vari- 

 ous parts of the parent tree. 4. Earthworms cut af under gener- 

 ate a new heady and a new tail. So the caudex es of the buds of 

 treet. The whole embryon not formed at the fame time. . Parts 

 of the long caudex of the new bud are fecreted from correfpondent 

 parts of the parent bud and unite beneath the cuticle. Every 

 part of the caudex can germinate. Thefe new buds refemble the 

 partofthejlocky, 'where they arife. Lateral mule from many 

 parents. If a triple fexual mule? 6. Gravitation^ chemical 

 affinity, elettricit^ magnetifm. Power to attract. Aptitude to 



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