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ken the jellies of veal and of other kinds of roaftr 

 ed meat, he put them in glaffes filled with water, 

 and carefully corked the bottles. After fome days 

 infufion, he found in the whole of the liquors 

 Jin immenfe number of moving bodies. He 

 fhowed me feveral of thefe infufions, and, among 

 others, that of the veal jelly, which contained 

 moving bodies very fimilar to thofe in the femen 

 of man, the dog, and the bitch, after they had 

 loft their tails or threads. Though they changed 

 their forms, their motions were fo fimilar to 

 thofe of animals fvvimming, that, whoever faw 

 them for the firft time, or had been ignorant of 

 what has been formerly remarked concerning 

 them, would certainly have conceived them to 

 be real animals. I fhall only add, that Mr Need- 

 ham has eftablifhed, by numberlefs experiments, 

 the exiilence of moving organic particles in all 

 the parts of vegetables, which confirms what I 

 have alledged, and extends my theory concern- 

 ing the compofincn and reprodudion of orga- 

 nized beings. 



It is apparent, then, that all animals, whether 

 male or female, and every fpecies of vegetable, 

 are compofed of living organic particles. Thefe 

 organic particles abound moftin the feminalfluids 

 of animals, and in the feeds of vegetables. Re- 

 produdion is effeded by the union of thefe or- 

 ganic particles, which are detached from all 

 parts of the animal or vegetable body, and are 

 always fimilar to the particular fpecies to which 



they 



