LMG) . 
Scries. I fhall not ask how this fmall Plant can have 
Seed 5 in the common Acceptation of that Term, 
it is plain it cannot : and if it has not, where the 
prc-cxiftcnt Germ is lodged ; how, from an Atom, at 
fo immenfe a Remove, can it be increas’d to a fenfible 
Mafs, and be fucceflively developed through fo many 
Generations, till its Time of Appearance? with 
many other Confequences that may be drawn from 
hence againft the Reality of pre-ex iftent Germs j all 
vv iiich are too obvious to require a diftind Enumera- 
tion. 
§ i5* It is in vain for us to pretend to lay down 
any one ceitain uniform Rule, and fay to Nature, 
This is thy Scheme ; fuch arc thy Statutes,- and from 
thefe thou (halt not deviate, if in many Produdions 
^he fixes it as an inviolable Law, that no Individual 
of that Species fhall appear without a Co-operation 
of two Parents a Male and a Female, (he has at the 
fame time her Hermaphrodites both in Plants and 
Animals j and if in thefe Hermaphrodites the two 
Sexes are yet fo diftind, that (he feems but to have a 
little diverfified her Operations, without any fenfible 
Deviation from her primitive Law, fhe will, in an- 
other Inflance, that of the Bncerons obferv’d by 
Mr. Bonnet , ad cither with or without the Co- 
operation of a Male. If again you fay that a Female 
may be impregnated, fo that the Impregnation fhall 
diffufe itfelf, and penetrate as far as five or fix Ge- 
nerations, fhe will point out to you in the Clafs of 
Polypes many Kinds, where Generation is carried 
on without either Male or Female, Egg or Seed ; 
tho’, among thefe, there arc fome of the plumed 
Sort, where a whole Family, when by real Ve- 
, ' getatioa 
