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wire creep's onward on the ground, is exactly re- 

 fembled by the tape-worm, or taenia, fo often foirnd 

 In the bowels, ftretching itfelf in a chain quite from 

 the ftomach to the rec~lum. Linnaeus aflerts, " that 

 it grows old at one extremity, while it continues to 

 generate young 6nes at the other, proceeding ad 

 hifinitum, like a root of graft. The feparate joints 

 are called gourd-worms,' and propagate new joints 

 like the parent without end, each joint being fur* 

 mined with its' proper mouth, and organs of digef- 

 fion." Syflema naturae. Vermes tenia. In this 

 animal there evidently appears a power of reproduc- 

 tion without ally maternal apparatus for the purpofe 

 6f fupplying nutriment and oxygenation to the em- 

 bryon, as it remains attached to hs father till its 

 irraturrty. The volvox globator, which is a tranf- 

 parent animal, is faM by Linnaeus to bear within it 

 fons and grand- fons fo the fifth generation;. Thefe 

 are probably living fetufes, produced by the father, 

 of different degrees of maturity, to be detruded at 

 different periods of time, like the unimpregnated 

 eggs of various fizes, which are found m poultry ; 

 and as they are produced without any known co- 

 pulation, contribute to evince, that the living em- 

 bryon i : n other orders of animals is formed by the 

 male-parent, and not by the mother, as one parent 

 has the power to produce it. 



Thrs idea of the reproduction of animals from a 

 iingle living filament of their fathers, appears to 

 have been fhadowed or allegorized in the curious 

 account in facred writ of the formation of Eve from 

 a rib of Adam. 



From all thefe analogies I conclude, that the em- 

 bryon is produced folely by the male, and that the 

 female fupplies it with a proper nidus, with fufte- 

 nance, and with oxygjenation ; and that the idea of 

 the femen of the male conflitutirig only a flimulus 

 to the egg of the female, exciting it into life, (as 



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