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from {bedding their Seed in fuch proper Places. 

 Indeed if an InjeB ?nay be thus equivocally genera-- 

 ted^ v)hy not fometimes a Bird^ a ^adruped, a Man, 

 or even an Univerfe ? Or^ why no new Species of 

 Animals now and then ? As my learned Friend 

 Dr, Tancred Robinfon very well argues in his 

 Letters ; for there is as much Art fhewn in the For- 

 mation of thofe as of thefe. 



A fourtb and mod efFedual Argument againft 

 fpontaneous Generation is, that there are no new 

 Species produced, which would certainly now 

 and then, nay, very often happen were there any 

 fuch thing ; for in fuch pretended Generations, 

 the generant or a6live Principle is fuppos'd to be 

 the Sun, which being an inanimate Body, cannot 

 aft otherwife than by his Heat, which Heat can 

 only put the Particles of the paffive Principle into 

 motion; the paffive Principle is putrid Matter, 

 the Particles whereof cannot be conceived to dif- 

 fer in any thing but Figure, Magnitude and Gra- 

 vity ; now the Heat putting thefe Particles in mo- 

 tion, may indeed gather together thofe which are 

 homogeneous, or of the fame nature, andfepa- 

 rate thofe that are heterogeneous, or of a diffe- 

 rent, but that it fhould fo fituate, place and con- 

 ned: them as we fee in the Bodies of Animals, is 

 altogether inconceivable \ which if it could, yet 

 that it fhould always run them into fuch a Ma- 

 chine as is already extant, and not often into fome 

 new-falhion'd one, fuch as was never feen before, 

 no Reafon can be affign'd or imagined. This the 

 Epicurean Poet Lucretius was fo fenfible of, that 



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