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mediate Superior. TheBell-Animal, of which I nave 
had many from my infufed Subdances, and whofe 
Growth I have purfued from its fird Origin, is a Spe- 
cies of microfcopical Polype,- generating and feed- 
ing as other Polypes do, when once itfelf is gene- 
rated; tho’ its own original Generation is perhaps dif- 
ferent tiom that of the others $ for 1 could never ob- 
tain any of the larger Kinds this Way. I fay this 
however with fomeReferve; for I will not afiert but 
that fome decay'd Water-Plants decomposing in par- 
ticular Circumlhnces, and their Subftancc exuberatc- 
ing, may perhaps, when urged by this vegetative Force, 
give Polypes of every Kind ; nay I very^much fufped’ 
that feveral of the lowed Kinds of vilible Animals 
may, in due Circumftances,- which yet perhaps are 
rare, be recoverable this Way, when the whole Spe- 
cies has perifhed in particular Places by fome un- 
common Accident. This I the more readily believe, 
from the Reafonablenefs of fome Allowances to be 
made in this refped ; all which may be permitted, 
and mud have been forefeen by the Great Cre- 
ator, without any Danger of Confufion, or an un- 
limited Generation of new Species never before pro- 
duced : He who made Nature, and fees through the 
whole Machine, well knew its utmod Force, and 
has confequently forefeen every Circumdance, and 
limited its Produdions accordingly. 
Nor indeed can there be a dronger Argument 
deriv'd from any Sydem of Generation whatfoever, 
of an- All-wife Being, All-powerful, and All-good, 
Who gave tb Nature its original Force, and now pre- 
sides over it, than from the Consideration of an 
exuberating dudile Matter, aduated with a vegeta- 
tive 
