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and particularly upon the cicatrice ; he never 

 would have advanced, that nothing was percep- 

 tible before the end of the third day ; that the 

 animated point appeared firft ; and that the white 

 point was transformed into the animated point : 

 He would have perceived that the white point 

 was the bubble or globule which contaiqed the 

 whole apparatus of generation ; and that all the 

 rudiments of the foeius commenced there from 

 the moment of receiving the impregnation of 

 the cock : He vt^ould likewife have difcovered, 

 that, without this impregnation, it contains no- 

 thing but an unformed mafs, w^hich could never 

 become animated ; becaufe, in fad:, it is not 

 organized like an animal, and becaufe it is only 

 after this mafs, which onght to be regarded as a 

 colledion of the organic particles of the female 

 femen, is penetrated by the organic particles of 

 the male femen, that an animal is formed. This 

 formation is inftantaneous ; but the motions of 

 the new animal are imperceptible till 40 hours 

 after the procefs of incubation has commenced : 

 He would not have aiTured us that the heart is 

 firft formed, and that the other parts are fuccef- 

 fively joined to it by juxta-pontion ; fmce it is 

 apparent, from the experiments of Malpighius, 

 that the rudiments of all the parts arc formed at 

 once, but that they become perceptible only in 

 proportion as they are fuccefTively unfolded : 

 Laftly, if he had feen, as Malpighius faw, he 

 would not have pofitivcly afferted, that no im- 



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