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tained in each of thefe Animalcules : By Difledion, 
the young Butterfly had been obferved in the Ca- 
terpillar three or four Days before it became a 
Chryfalid 5 Mr. Lewenhoeck had fucceeded in fome 
other very nice Operations upon extremely minure 
Subjeds, nor did he defpair of his Succefs in this ; 
yet his repeated Attempts, it feems, all proved fruit- 
lefs. But what the mod exquifite Art had deny’d to 
Lewenhoeck, Chance, if we believe him, presented 
to another Naturalift, a little Man ftarted from 
under the Integuments he was faid to wear in his 
vermicular State 5 and the Obferver very humour- 
oufiy gave us a Figure of this diminutive Entity 
perfed in every Member. Thefe extraordinary 
Sallies, however, we muft not place to the Ac- 
count of the Learned, either of this or the laft 
Age; they were generally exploded, and they indeed 
continue fo 5 yet altho’ they were peculiar only to 
the moll lively ; extravagant as they may appear to 
be, they were Confcquences of the Syflem ; and 
thus was this Method of Reafoning by Analogy 
fairly purfued, as far as Imagination could carry it. 
§ 9. Cudworth , Grew, Le Clerc, and fome 
other Gentlemen of Judgment, had refleded too 
deeply upon Nature to give way to any Hypothecs, 
how plaufible foever, that took in lefs than tire 
whole Scene it exhibits to every attentive Obferver,' 
Yet they feem to have advanced much too far to- 
wards the other Extreme 5 and their Syflem of plaf- 
tic Natures, tho’ in its Detail attended with many , 
Proofs of extenfive Thought, and profound Reflec- 
tion, in a general View derogates as much from the 
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