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in it 5 but how, and of Materials, is a Queftion to be 
put at Delpkos or Grejbam College, for Apollo, or the 
Royal Society to Anfwer. 
Such Philofophers who call thofe extraordinary Appear* 
ances Lu fits Nature, feem like thofe of old, who wearied 
in their Natural Searches byfome puzling Difficulty, take 
Refuge in Words, afcribing the Caufe of Things which 
they can’t difcover or difcern, to Occult Qualities, &c. 
If they mean by hnfus Nature, the Sport or Recreation of 
Nature, they accufe her who doth nothing in vain, and 
is the Author of all the Order, Beauty and Benefits we 
enjoy, as delighting to make Monftrous, Deformed ,llfelefs 
and Mifchievous Things 5 Things preternatural and con- 
trary to Nature, becaufe deftroying its belt Works, 
Man. 
If by it they mean that Nature being on the Work of 
Generation, miftook, failed, or was difappointed $ and 
inftead of forming an Embryo or Fcetus, made a Chaos, 
turn’d into a confus’d Lump of Bone, Fat, Hair and 
Membranes, the Materials or Elements of Animal Bodies, 
they greatly err ; for in all fueh Afts of Nature, the Coi- 
tion of both Sexes is required, according to the old, or 
either of the new Rypothefes de Generatione Animal, 
which in the Girl of Deal was wanting ythe being found, 
upon a very nice and drift Scrutiny of Jealous Eyes, to 
die a Virgin, and Intaft. 
We are told by many Authors of the bed Credit, That 
great Quantities of Hair have been found in all the Parts 
of Humane Bodies, the Fluids not excepted- Dr. Tyfon 
did, about twenty Years fince, publifh a large Colleftion 
from them. That Penetrating Eye, beyond the Ken of 
which fcarce any thing in Nature is concealed, reafons 
like a Philofopher, on the Nature and Produftionof Hair 
iff Human Bodies, Living or Dead 5 .efpeciafljC in thofe 
Parts we are writing of : but the Teeth and Bones feem too 
hard, even for fo acute an Inveftigator, He hath indeed 
