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appear unwilling to quit thefe old Errors. But as 
this is not the Place intended for a Djfcudion of 
the feveral Opinions concerning it, we (hall here 
only confidcr how the Conjun&ion of thefe two 
Children happen’d 5 as well as the means whereby 
Children acquire fuperfluous or want the neceffary 
A Members, or are any other wife deformed 
According to a late Reading I had the Honour to 
exhibit before you upon the Analogy between the 
Propagation of Animals and Vegetables *, 1 hope it 
appear’d pretty clearly, that both thefe Parts of the 
Creation are daily propagated from Organizations 
already formed and treafured up in natural Recepta- 
cles provided for them, till they come to be re- 
moved into proper Places of Nourifhment 3 from 
which Opinion we can find no Reafon to fvVerve 
at prffent, and which we mud have recourfe to, in 
order to account for the prefent Subject. 
If the old Sydems had Weight formerly, later 
Enquiries have expofed their Abfiirdities. Truth 
admits of nothing abfurd, and as to what regards 
the Works of the Creation, especially that of Ani- 
mals and Vegetables, that Svftem of accounting /or 
their Generation which is moll fimple, and is lead 
liable to Objections, is moft likely to fucceed in 
the Enquiry and fmee the Ordination of Provi- 
dence was that all fhould be good, it will appear 
the means of the Propagation of Animals and Ve- 
getables, which was partly the Subject of the Dif- 
courfc lately read before you, will feem lead of all 
liable to any Accidents that might degrade the ge- 
Aaaa 2 neral 
* Which I defign fhortly to publifh. J- P> 
