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When this nutritive and prolific matter, which 

 is univerfally difluled, has palled through the 

 internal mould of an animal or vegetable, and 

 has found a proper matrix, it produces an ani- 

 mal or vegetable of the fame loe' ies. But, 

 when it finds not a fuitable matrix, it produces 

 organized beings different from animals or ve- 

 getables, 08 the moving and vegetating bodies 

 which appear in the feminal fluids of animals, 

 and in the infufions of the buds of plants, &c. 



This prolific matter is compofed of organic 

 particles, which are always adive, whole mo- 

 tions and a«llions are fixed or arrefted by the brute 

 parts of matter in general, and pjrficularly by- 

 oily and faline fubftances ; but, as foon as they 

 are difengaged from this matter, which is fo- 

 reign to their nature, they refume their atlion, 

 and produce different fpecies of plants, and other 

 animated beings. 



The effeds of this prolific matter may be {een 

 by the microfcope in the feminal fluids of both 

 male and female animals. The femen of vivi- 

 parous females is filtrated through the glandu- 

 lous bodies which grow upon their tefticlcs ; and 

 thefe glandulous bodies contain a confiderable 

 quantity of feminal fluid in their cavities. Ovi- 

 parous females, as well as the viviparous, have 

 a feminal fluid, which is ftill more adive than 

 that of the viviparous. The femen of the fe- 

 male is, in general, fimllar to that of the male, 

 when both are in a natural fiatc. Thcv dccom- 



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