594 GENERATION. SECT. XXXIX. 7. 



nerating a male thefe ideas ceafed, and thofe of the 

 male character prefided at the genial hour. 



7. Hence I conclude, that the aft of generation 

 cannot exift without being accompanied with ideas, 

 and that a man muft have at that time either a gene- 

 ral idea of his own male form, or of the form of his 

 male organs ; or an idea of the female form, or of 

 her organs; and that this marks the fex, and the pe- 

 culiar refemblances of the child to either parent. 

 From whence it would appear, that the phalli, which 

 were hung round the necks of the Roman ladies, or 

 worn in their hair, might have efTeti in producing a 

 greater proportion of male children; and that the 

 callipsedia, or art of begetting beautiful children, and 

 of procreating either males or females, may be taught 

 by affecting the imagination of the male-parent ; 

 that is, by the fine extremities of the feminal glands 

 imitating the actions of the organs of fenfe either of 

 fight or touch. But the manner of accomplifhing 

 this cannot be unfolded with fufficient delicacy for 

 the public eye; but may be worth the attention of 

 thofe, who are ferioufly interefled in the procreation 

 of a male or female child. 



Recapitulation 



VII. I. A certain quantity of nutritive particles 

 are produced by the female parent before impregna- 

 tion, which require no further digeltion, fecretion, 

 or oxygenation. Such are feen in the unimpregnated 

 eggs of birds, and in the unimpregnated feed-veifels 

 of vegetables. 



2. A living filament is produced by the male, 

 which being inferted amidfl thefe firft nutritive parti- 

 cles, is fUmulated into action by them; and in con- 

 fequence of this action, fome of the nutritive parti- 

 cles are embraced, and added to the original living 



filament ; 



