c 477 ; 
fliall be in the World, have been formed ab Origine Mundi 
by the Almighty Creator within the firft of each re- 
fpe£tive kind. And he who confiders the nature of 
Vifion, that it does not give us the true magnitude, but 
the proportion of things, and that what feems to our 
naked Eye but a Point, may truly be made up of as 
many parts as feem to us to be in the whole vifible 
World, will not think this an abfurd or impoffible thing. 
But the fecond thing which later difcoveries have 
made probable is, that thefe Animalcles are originally 
in Semine Marinm& nonin f&mwis. And this I Col- 
lect from thefe Confederations, i. That there are innu- 
merable Animalcula difcovered in Semine Mafculo omni- 
um Animalium. Mr. heewenhoeck^ has made this fo evi- 
dent by fo many Obfervations, that I do not in the 
leaft queftion the truth of the thing. The reafon of 
their multitude, and fome of the difficulties which arife 
thereupon, he has cleared to very good purpofe, fo that 
I fliall not repeat them. z. The obferving the Rudi- 
ments of the Festm in Eggs, which have been fecunda* 
ted by the Male, jand the feeing no fuch thing in thofe 
which are not fecundated, as appears from malpghius 
his Qbfervations, make it very probable that thefe Ru- 
diments proceed originally from the Male, and no* from 
the Female. 3. The refemblance between the Rudi- 
mer ts of the fetus in CW,both before and after Incubation* 
and the Animalcule, makes it very probable that they 
are one and the fame. The fame (hape and figure which 
Mr. Leemnhoeck^ gives us of the Animalcule, Mdpighius 
likewife gives of the Rudiments, of the Foztus, both* be- 
fore and after Incubation, yea, and even the Ftxtw's of 
Animals do appear fo at firft to the naked Eye, fo that 
Dr. Harvey does acknowledge that all Animals, even the 
moft perfeft are begotten of a Worm, DeGen. Anim. 
Ex. 18. 4. This gives a rational account of many F^- 
tm's at one Birth, efpecially that of the Countefs of 
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