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rather parts fuperadded to an animal. Probably they 
were firft conlidered in thofe animals where thofe parts 
were feparated, or in which the female parts were wholly 
found in one animal and the male in the other; there- 
fore the terms female and male have been applied to the 
whole animal, dividing them into two diftindt fexes, and 
the parts which formed either the one fex or the other 
.called either the female or the male parts of generation ; 
but upon a further knowledge of animals, and of thofe 
parts, they were found to be united in the fame animal 
in many of the inferior tribes, who, from poffeffing both 
parts, have got the name of hermaphrodite. 
As both thofe parts are natural to moft animals, and as 
the union of them in the fame animal is alfo natural to 
many, and the reparation, of them in diftindt animals, is 
only a circumftance making no effential difference in the 
parts themfelves; it becomes no great effort or uncom- 
mon play in nature to unite them in thofe animals in 
which they are commonly feparated. 
And accordingly we find many of thofe orders of ani- 
mals, which have them feparate naturally, have them 
fometimes united. 
From this account hermaphrodites may be divided 
into two kinds ; the natural, and the unnatural uncom- 
mon or monftrous. 
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