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getation branch’d out as far as Nature defigns, jointly 
concurs to give one Egg, or fomething analogous 
to an Egg, as the Source of a future Progeny. And 
thus is this Clafs united to its next mod immediate 
Superior. If you fhould hill infill, that the vital ef- 
fential Stamina of every Plant and Animal were really 
concreated with the Univerfe, and are now diflfufed in 
Water, Earth, or Air, from whence each will be 
united to its proper Subject in due time ; or that the 
Experiments of Niewentyt, and other Naturalifls,. 
of the Stems and Roots of Beans, or other Seeds, al- 
tering their Direftions fevcral times whendifplac’d, 
to recover each its own, the Root downwards, and 
Stem upwards ; that thefe I fay evidently prove vital, 
eflential, unchangeable Stamina j as they mud be, 
if original, and concreated with the Univerfe : In- 
fiances might be brouaht from the Memoirs of the 
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Royal Academy of Sciences at Raris, of Trees that 
have been fo inverted, and induc’d to change their 
Direction, that the Branches have become Roots, and 
the Roots Branches - 3 a Rhtenomenon totally incon- 
fiflenc with vital, eflential, and unalterable Stamina < 
In fine, if at lad you refolve to Hand by this one 
Refource, that at lead every Individual proceeds 
from a Parent like itfelfj that the original Germs, 
tho’ not wholly unchangeable, are yet fufficiently 
fix’d to determine every Species, and that they are 
either lodg’d in thefe Parents, or fecreted from the 
Elements by Strainers through their Bodies: I be- 
lieve I can furnifh, from my lad Summer’s Obfer- 
vations, a Cloud of Inflances, of a new Clafs of Be- 
ings, whole Origin has hitherto been unknown, 
wherein Animals grow upon, are produc’d by, and, in 
the 
