CONTENTS 



THE ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



NOTE I. SPONTANEOUS VITALITY OF MICROSCOPIC ANIMALS. 



I. Spontaneous vital production not contrary to scripture; to be looked for only 

 in the simplest organic beings; supposed want of analogy no argument against it, as 

 this equally applies to all new discoveries. II. The power of reproduction distin- 

 guishes organic beings; which are gradually enlarged and improved by it. III. Micro- 

 scopic animals produced from all vegetable and animal infusions; generate others like 

 themselves by solitary reproduction; not produced from eggs; conferva fontinalis; 

 mucor. III. Theory of spontaneous vitality. Animal nutrition; vegetable; some 

 organic particles have appetencies to unite, others propensities to be united; buds of 

 trees; sexual reproduction; analogy between generation and nutrition; laws of elasti- 

 city not understood; dead animalcules recover life by heat and moisture; chaos redi- 

 vivum; vorticella; shell-snails; eggs and seeds ; hydra. Classes of microscopic ani- 

 mals; general remarks. 







NOTE II. FACULTIES OF THE SENSORIUM. 



Fibres possess a power of contraction ; spirit of animation immediate cause of their 

 contracting; stimulus of external bodies the remote cause; stimulus produces irrita- 

 tion; due contraction occasions pleasure; too much, or too little, pain; sensation 

 produces desire or aversion, which constitute volition; associated motions ; irritation; 

 sensation; volition; association; sensorium. 



NOTE III. VOLCANOES. 



Their explosions occasioned by water falling on boiling lava; primeval earth- 

 quakes of great extent ; more elastic vapours might raise islands and continents, or 

 even throw the moon from the earth ; stones falling from the sky ; earthquake at, 

 Lisbon ; subterraneous fires under this island. 



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