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this Matter, either by ail Evolution of organical 
Parts, as Mr. de Buffon fuppofed, or by a real Vege- 
tation, as I thought, of the fame kind with thofe I 
had before obferv’d in my Infuflons; tho’ more 
prompt, becaufe the Matter was more exalted : 
confequcntly the fpermatic Animals were of the 
fame kind as all other microfcopical Animals, their 
Origin the fame, their Influence nothing more in 
Generation, nor any otherwife conducing to its 
Caufe, than as EfFe&s of thofe Principles in the Se- 
men > which alone are the true and adequate Caufe 
of it. Sec Fig. i . 
Thefe vegetative Powers, which, from the very 
Beginning of my Obfervations, I had found to relide 
in all Subftances animal or vegetable, and in every 
Part of thofe Subftances, as far as the fmalleft mi- 
crofcopical Point, I had at this time certain Proofs 
of 5 tho’ not fo plain and inconteftable as thofe I 
procur’d a few Days before Mr. de Buffon left Ta- 
ns for the Country, and which I profecuted after his 
Departure. Thefe I communicated to him in few 
Words the Night before he began his Journey, yet he 
was not at that time acquainted with any fpecial De- 
tail of the many Singularities that attend thefe latter 
Vegetations, for I had but juft then made and enter’d 
upon the Difcovery of them myfelf. I am obliged the 
more particularly to obferve this, becaufe the many 
Confequcnces he has fince drawn, as well as myfelf, 
and which, without any mutual Communication, hap- 
pen’d to tally with and feemingly to flow from the 
Difcoverics, were not in Fatt deduced from a circum- 
ftantiated Knowlege of thefe new Phenomena, which 
he had not, but from this one Principle, that there 
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