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feems to oblige one to rejed this Hypothefis, and 
particularly this Opinion, that every Animalculum 
is an Embryo. For it is certain, that in every Man 
there would be enough of them to people a vaft 
Country, and of all that immenfe Quantity there are 
but a few that come to any thing. And fo, there 
you have Millions of little Men, created never to 
exift 5 which feems diredlly contrary to the wife In- 
tentions of the Creator, who, in all Likelihood, 
made nothing in vain. But Teleology is one of thofe 
Parts of Philofophy, in which there has been but 
little Progrefs made, wherein one reafons only by 
Conjedure, nor can demonftrate any thing other- 
wife than a pofteriori. Who dares prefume fo far as 
to pretend to penetrate into all the Defigns of the 
Almighty, and into the divers Ends He has pro- 
pofed to Himfelf in the Creation of the Univerfc? 
Befides, it is certain, that half of Mankind pcrilh, 
before they come to the Age of one Year, that is to 
fay, before they can know themfelves, before they 
can anfwer the Ends God propofed to Himfelf when 
He created them. Would one fay therefore, that 
their Exiftence was ufelefs? But moreover, this 
feemingly ufelefs Quantity of Animalcula equally 
affords an Argument againft the Hypothefis of thofe, 
who believe the Embrvo is in the Egg. One cannot 
maintain, that all the Eggs in the Ovaria are fruitful. 
And fo there we have equally an immenfe Qitantity 
of Types of Embryo’s created for nothing, and abfo- 
lutely ufelefs j and it will follow from both Hypo- 
thefes,that God might liave faved Himfelf the Trouble 
of creating fo prodigious a Quantity of Creatures in 
order to precipitate them into nothing. But who 
dares 
