Ccurfe Sand, (as I have faid heretoRre) and if we then alfo coofidcr, of 
how many pieces and InHruments the Body of fuch an 'Animal doth confifl, 
wherewith it moveth it (tU from place to place, and alio farther confidcr, 
^\hat f;rc3t Wf nderscaD be lodged la fuch an AnimaljWe niufl ftand amazed, 
and cariHot apprthend, the extraordinary fma Incfs of thcfe Parts, '.vhereof 
thcfc Creature! are compoCed, aod fay within cur felvej, how impcrvcHigablc 
is the depth of Wlfdora. * 
It being then that hitherto, nothing at all if come before me that can make 
me the leafl Scruple, to induce me to recede from my former opinion, and 
to receive an opinion to believe, or hold, that Acimals fhould come forth of 
thcmfelves, therefore I ftill remain of th\\ my opinior>, that out of the Ani- 
mals of Mafculine Seeds, come forth Anima's of the fame kind as they were 
Created in the beginning, and that as hitherto no truer Pofition Is left. 
For if Animals could be born of thcmfelves, uhidi I fhoulJ reckon 
to be a Miracle, then mufi not only every Minute, but every Second, Millions 
of Miracles he done, which is an opinion not to be received, for if this was 
fo, there muft daily new Creatures be brought forth, which iiithcrto we have 
not obfcrred. 
Now if wc add hereunto, as I feave Judged it to be frrmerly, that in the 
Animals of the Aiafculinc Seed, there was a fmall difference, from each o- 
ther, from whence I conclude the one fort to be A/ales the other Femalcs,and 
if this takes place- in all iJ/afcullne Seeds, I cannot fee, why we have not a 
hundred times more Reafon to beJicve, that the Animals in the -Mafculine 
Seed, when they arc grown to pcrfeftion, are provided with Matter fit for 
Seed, wherewith to propagate their Kind, then iliat we fhould Forge in our 
Brains, that Animals come from themfclves. 
I know no Animal (fmall Infeds only excepted) that is fubjed to fo 
many changes as a Frog, for out of the Egg, comes forth an Animal, that 
is more like unto a Worm, then unto a Frog, and as it could in the b^gfn- 
ing nothing elfe, but fwim a long by the moviDg of its Tail, and beating of It 
from fide to fide, ic doth Swim (after it is come to be a Frog) by pulling 
in and thrufling out of it's Four Legs, and it runs and jumps upon the Land, 
where it alfo gets it's Food. 
Now as the change of the Animals in the /WiafoiliDe Seed cannot be fn- 
vefligaicd by the Eye, as we can do in other things, fo we have the Liberty 
to communicate to other^our reafonable thoughts, fo as after a mofl notable 
confideration they may be Framed In our Brains,fo that every one may think 
his pleafure. - 
My intention Is, fhortly to communicate to you fome of my Obfer- 
nations, concerning the Motion and Stagnation of the Blood in the Tail of 
.a iFr«>g, in the mean while I remain, &c. 
n. A. 
