Mifcellanea Curiofa. 1 4.7 



Mejfiah, that the Seed of the Woman {hail bruife 

 the Head of the Serpent, all the reft of Mankind 

 being thus moft properly and truly the Seed of 

 the Man. 6. The Analogy I have already men- 

 tioned, which we may rationally fuppofe be- 

 tween the manner of the propagation of Plants 

 and Animals, does likewife make this probable. 

 Every Herb and Tree bears its Seed after its 

 kind j which Seed is nothing elfe but a little 

 Plant of the fame kind, which being thrown in- 

 to the Earth, as into its Vterus> fpreads forth its 

 Roots, and receives its Nourifliment, but has its 

 form within its (elf, and we may rationally con- 

 jecture fbmce fuch Analogy in the Propagation of 

 Animals. 



- The third Particular which later Dilcoveries 

 make probable, is, that Animals cannot be for- 

 med of thefe AnimalcuU without the Ova in 

 fccminis, which are neceflary for fupplying of 

 them with proper Nutriment : And this, thefe 

 Confiderations feem to evince, i. It is proba- 

 ble that an Animalcle cannot come forward, if 

 it do not fall into a proper Nidus. This we fee 

 is the CkatricuU in Eggs ; and tho' a Million of 

 them {hould fall into an Egg, none of them 

 would come forward, but what were in the 

 Center of the CkatricuU , and perhaps the Ni- 

 dus neceflary for their formation is fb propor- 

 tioned to their bulk, that it can hardly contain 

 more than one Animalcle j and this may be the 

 reafon why there are lb few Monfters. This 

 we fee is abfolutely neceflary in Oviparis ; and 

 the only difference which feems to be between 

 them and the Vivipara % in this matter, is in 

 this, that in the latter the Ova are properly no- 

 thing more but the CkatricuU^ with its Colli* 

 quamentumi (6 that the Foetus mult fipread forth 

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