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mofi: Intimate recedes of the original moulds ; 

 for, in the fame manner as gravity pervades the 

 whole parts of matter, the power which puflies 

 forward or attracts the organic panicles of food, 

 penetrates the internal parts of organized bodies; 

 and, as thefe bodies have a certain form, which 

 wehavcdiftinguilhedby the appellation oi inter- 

 nal moulds^ the organic particles, puihed on 

 by the adion of this penetrating force, muft en- 

 ter in an order relative to this form, and confe- 

 (piently cannot alter its figure, but only augment 

 its bulk, and give rife to the growth and expan- 

 fion of organized bodies : And if, in the orga- 

 nized body, thus expanded, there be fome par- 

 ticles fimilar to the whole, both internally and 

 externally, thcfe parts will become the fource of 

 reprod action. 



Let us now examine the third quetlion, name- 

 ly. Is it not by a fimilar power that the internal 

 mould itfelf is reproduced ? This power appears to 

 be not only fimilar, but the very fame w^ith that 

 which is the caufe of expanfion and reproduc- 

 tion ; for, in an organized and expanded body, 

 nothing farther is neceffary for the reprodudion 

 of a new body fimilar to itfelf, than that it Ihould 

 contain fome particle every way fimilar to the 

 whole. This particle, at its firft feparation, will 

 not prefent to our eyes a fenfible figure by which 

 we can compare it with the whole body. But, 

 when feparated from the body, and put in a fi- 

 tuation to receive proper nourifhment, this fimi- 

 lar 



