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hadyetmet witb, perfedly at liberty $ and for the filaments, 
our Author mentions,it was very poffibie he might be miftaken^ 
it being very hard^ and amatter not yet treated of in any pub- 
lick paper, which and what are the vefTels that enter into the 
Texture of a Vegetable^as of a large Treejfor example 5 much 
more hard would it be to fay, this is a veflel in^fmallGall* 
That there were many By-fruits of different figure and-ihape 
(though perhaps of a like Texture) upon one and the fame? 
plant, every one of which did nounfh and produce a different 
race of Infers Whence,! told him, I thought might rather 
be argued the diverfe workmanfhip of different Infe(Sls , then 
one and the fame principle of vegetation to be Author of feve« 
ral forts of Animals. 
That the Animals themfelves, produced of fuch Excrefcen- 
cies, were for the kind of fuch a race, as were well known to 
us to be otherwife generated of animal parents, and therefore 
it was probable, that thefe were fo too, as well as their tribe- 
fellows* 
That the Infedl-Animals produced of fiich Excrefcencies 
were male and female 5 and that, if fo, we might argue with 
jirijlotk Qib.i.ca* de Generate Animal.) ihzt Nature made not 
fuch in vain, and that, if from the coit of thefe Animals, which 
have their birth from no Animals, Animals fliould be born, they 
would ^/V^^r be like their parents and of the fame fpecies with 
them, and it fo, it would neceffarily follow (fince in the gene- 
ration of all other creatures it fo comes to pais) that their very 
parents had fuch origin too : or unlike them, and if fo (if thefe 
aifo were male and female) of this fecond unhke off-fpringa 
third race of different animals or fpecies would be begot, and 
of them a fourth, and fo in infinitum^ And that thefe InfedtSj 
which he and I had obl'erved to be produced of the Excrefcen- 
cies of fome vegetables, we had good caufe to fufped: they 
were male and female, fince fome of them had flings and were 
tripilous, and others not (vide Catalog, plant. Cantab, ad 'R^fam 
eaninam ^ alibi* ) 
Thefe were fome at leaft of the Arguments.as far as I remem- 
ber,! ufed,when 1 formerly wrote on this fubje£l to my friend^ 
but fince that Letter, I have periifjd the Book of F\ Redt ic 
felf, and do find, that the laid opinion is barely propofed as 
a thing not unplaufible, but the proofs thereof are referved, 
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