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duced only females. This Opinion, abhird as it 
is, has been followed and maintained by feveral cele- 
brated Phyficians. How can one believe, that a little 
more of I do not know what, (for they do not 
determine wherein the more or lefs of the Virtue in 
the Seed muft confift) a little more Adivity, a little 
more Spirituoufnefs, fhould compofc, fhould deter- 
tnine any Organization? It is more natural to be- 
lieve, that every Anmalculum has already the Sex 
it is to have when it comes into the World. It has 
been difputed Tooth and Nail, to determine the 
Time when the Foetus becomes animated, and to 
know from whence and how its Soul enters into its 
Body. According to the moft general Opinion, there 
muft be at every Conception a new Creation of a 
Soul: Or, according to others, there is always a 
Legion of created Souls fluttering about in the Air, 
and watching the Minute for entering into a fruitful 
Egg as foon as it is impregnated. What an Extra- 
vagance is this! Would it be as abfurd to believe, 
that every Animalculum has already its Soul, which 
Waits only for the little Machine's unfolding itfelf in 
order to exert its Funflion ? 
According to the Hypothefis of Animalculdy one 
may eafily account for thofe monftrous Births, when 
two Foetufes are joined together, or Children and 
Animals are double, in the Whole or in Part. I 
keep in my Colledion a Pig, that has eight Feet; 
the two Bodies, that are feparated, reunite themfelves 
by the Spinet ’Dorfi below the 'Fyiaphvagtm, and 
have but one vifible Neck fupportlng a Head, bigger 
than it fhould be, on which there appear four Ears, 
three Eyes, and the Snout feems double. 1 have alfo 
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