352 RECAPITULATION. 



There are, therefore, no pre-exifting germs, 

 or germs infinitely contained within each other. 

 But there is anorganic matter diffufed through all 

 animated nature, which is always adive, always 

 tending to form, to affimilate, and to produce 

 beings fimilar to thofe which receive it. The fpe- 

 cies of animals and of vegetables, therefore, 

 can never be exhaufted : As long as individuals 

 fubfift, the different fpecies will be conftantly 

 new ; they are the fame now that they were 

 three thoufand years ago : The whole will per- 

 petually exift by their own powers, unlefs they 

 be annihilated by the will of their Creator. 



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