376 GENERATION. SECT. XXXIX. 



and internal generation. 3. Hermaphrodite fexual generation 

 in moft flowers* and fome^ infers Summit-bulbs of feme vegeta- 

 bles are a fexual progeny. Sexual organs in hermaphrodites are 

 feparate, but fecrete the mafculine and feminine formative particles 

 from the fame mafs of blood Why feedling apple-trees fometime* 

 refemble the parent, fometimes not. Number offpecies increased by 

 reciprocal generation. 4. In fimple fexual generation the mafcu- 

 line and. feminine fecretions are from different majjes of blood. 

 Thefe animals were originally hermaphrodites The mode of the 

 producJitn of the new embryon. Secretion differs from nutrition. 

 New embryon begins in more parts than one. Acquires new ap- 

 petencies^ and fabricates fecondary parts* Sexual organs are fecon- 

 dary parts, not primary ones. So is the difference of the male and 

 female forms. Vegetable and animal fecondary productions. 5. 

 Seeds Eggs Spawn differs from eggs y as it enlarges along with 

 the embryon like the membranes of the fetus in utero. XL i. in- 

 animate cryjlals. Animated organization. Microjcopic animal- 

 cula from Jlagnaiion of vegetable and animal fluids Do not 

 generate. 2. Second kind of animal production commences in more 

 points than one : not like microfcopic animals ; as truffles, fungi^ 

 polypi, hydra. 3. Other vegetables are hermaphrodite^ but both 

 their fexual glands fecrete from the fame mafi of blood. 4. Other 

 vegetables have acquired feparate fcxes* and fecrete the prolific flu- 

 ids from different maffes of blood. The embryon begins in more 

 points in the more complicated animals. The primary parts fabri- 

 cate fecondary ones, as in the clafs dioecia of vegetables, and in fexu- 

 al animals. Nature it yet in her infancy. 5 Spontaneous pro- 

 duction of microfcopic animalcules. Isftmilar to actual generation. 

 Thefirft animalcules generate others, and improve. Seedling tu- 

 lip-root. Aphis. Immutable laws impreffid on matter. XII. 

 Conclufion. Of caufe and effect. The atomic philofophy leads to 

 a firft caufe. 



I. THE ingenious Dr. Hartley in his work on man, and fome 

 other philosophers, have been of opinion, that our immortal 

 part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of fenti- 

 ment, which become for ever indifloluble, continuing after death 

 in a future ftate of exiftence ; and add, that if thefe habits are 

 of the malevolent kind, they mud render the poflefibr miferable 

 even in Heaven I would apply this ingenious idea to the gener- 

 ation or production of the embryon, or new animal, which 

 partakes fo much of the form and propenfities of the parent. 



Owing to the imperfe&ion of language the offspring is termed 

 a new animal, but is in truth a branch or elongation of the par- 

 ent *, fmce a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the 



parent , 



