3i8 T/jeWisDOM of GOD Part IL 



Neither in Frogs only^ but alfo in many other 

 Creatures^ as Lice, F/eJJj-FlieSy Silk-Worms, and 

 €ther Voi^iYio s>y an uniform regular Generation was 

 <Dery obvious , which is an Argument to me of a 

 Jirange Prepofjefjion of Fancy in the Ages fince Ari- 

 ftotle, not to fay of CareleJJhefs and Sloth. So far 

 Mr. Derham. 



In like manner doubtlefs Fromondus, had he 

 made a diligent Search, might have found out the 

 Place where thofe Myriads of Frogs, obferv'd by 

 him about the Gates oiTournay, were generated^ 

 and whence they did prcX:eed. 



As for the Worms and other Animals bred in 

 the Inteftines of Man and Beaft, I have declar'd 

 myfelf not to be fatisfy'd of the Ways and Means 

 how their Seeds come to be convey'd into thofe 

 Places, but yet that their Generation is analo- 

 gous to that of other Creatures of thofe Kinds, 

 I doubt not ; the Conftancy to their Species, their 

 exadt Agreement and perpetual Similitude in the 

 Shape and Figure of their Bodies and all the Parts, 

 their Confidence , Temper, Motion, and other 

 Accidents, are to me little lefs than a Demonftra- 

 tion that they are not the Effefts of Chance, but 

 the Products of a fettled and fpermatick Princi- 

 ple J I am at prefent, till better informed, of opi- 

 nion that their Eggs are fwallow'd with the Meat 

 we eat ; and I am the rather induced to think fo^ 

 bccaufe Children in their firft Infancy, and as 

 ^ 2 long 



