282 OF THE FORMATION 



muft be endowed with life. Thefe living or- 

 ganic particles being common to all anirhated 

 beings, they are capable of forming particular 

 fpecies of animals or of vegetables, according 

 to the peculiar arrangement they a flume. Now, 

 this arrangement depends entirely on the form 

 of the individuals which furnifh the organic 

 particles. If they are furniflied by an animal, 

 they arrange themfelves under the form peculiar 

 to its fpecies, exadly agreeable to that arrange- 

 ment they obferved when they nourifhed or ex- 

 panded the animal itfelf. But, does not this re- 

 gular arrangement fuppofe the neceffity of fome 

 bafe or centre, round which the particles aflemble 

 in order to unite and form a foetus ? This bafis 

 is furnifhed by the particles which form the 

 fexuai parts. I ftiall illuftrate this point. 



As long as the organic particles of either fex 

 remain alone, their ad:ivity produces no effedt, 

 becaufe it is not oppofed by any refiftance or re- 

 acStion from particles of a different kind. But, 

 when the male and female liquors are blended, 

 the particles detached from the fexuai parts, be- 

 ing of a different kind, ferve as a bafe to fix the 

 adivity of the other particles. 



Upon this fuppofition, that the organic par- 

 ticles which, in the mixture of the two fluids, 

 reprefent the fexuai parts of the male, can alone 

 ferve as a bafis to the particles which proceed 

 from all parts of the female ; and that thofe 

 proceeding from all parts of the male can only 



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