original Stamina , how minute foevcr, queftionleis 
are diffufed through the whole Production; lince in 
this Syftem all animal or vegetable Growth is made by 
Developementonly : But if diffus’d, then fome or all 
maybe by fuccefilve Bifedion loft 5 and if loft, how 
can they be reproduc’d? Or if reproduc’d, why ever 
faid to be original, andconcreatcd with the Univerfe? 
§ 12. Thefe are but a few of thofe many Dif- 
ficulties that might be enumerated; which yet arc 
of fucha Nature, that it is evident to every unbiafs’d 
Obferver, they cannot be even fcemingly evaded, 
but by multiplying Suppofitions on Suppofitions > 
which at laft render the Hypothefis fo complex, as 
to retain no one Charaderiftic imprefs’d upon the 
ordinary Procefs and Operations of Nature. Is it nor 
much more reafonable to fay, that fo many fecretory 
Duds, fo many Strainers, fo many preparatory Vefiels 
in Animals, and fuch a curious Difpofition in Plants 
for the Continuation of every Species, imply a Digc- 
ftion, Secretion, and Preparation of Principles invari- 
ably, univocally produdive of every Individual, when 
they fall into their refpedive Matrices , and find 
Aliment proper to allimilatc? Are not thefe Princi- 
ples contained in the Nourifhment taken by the 
Parent Plant or Animal, the fame that continually 
vegetate within it, and furndfh it with Materials 
for its own Incrcafe ; continue to be diftributed till it 
becomes adult, then plentifully exuberate, whiift it 
is, by new Preparations, fitted to propagate invaria- 
bly in a proper Matrix its refpedive Kind ? Elfe, 
why this Digeftion ? why this Secretion? why fo 
many Strainers, Receivers, Duds, and Valves? and 
why is fpme Food more produdive of thefe Princi- 
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