the Free Martin. 
281’ 
The natural belongs to the inferior and more Ample 
order of animals, of which there are a much greater 
number than of the more perfect; but as animals be- 
come more complicated, have more parts, and each part 
is more confined to its particular ufe, a reparation of the 
two necefiary powers for generation have alfo taken 
place in them. 
The unnatural, I believe, now and then takes place in 
every tribe of animals having diftinct fexes, but is more 
common in fome than in others w . I fancy the human 
has the feweft, never having feen them in that fpecies 
nor in dogs: cats we know lefs of; but in the horfe, afs, 
Iheep, and cattle, they are very frequent. 
Though this fpecies of hermaphrodite be a mixture of 
both fexes, and fo polfefles the parts peculiar to each in 
perfection, there is yet one part of each which it does 
not pofiefs : I mean the part which is common to both. 
For as this common part is different in one fex from 
what it is in the other, and it is impoffible for one ani- 
mal to have both kinds; that which they do have muft 
of courfe partake of both fexes, and confequently render 
the hermaphrodite imperfeCl quoad hoc. 
(b) Shier e, I, there ever in the tribe of animals, that are natural henna- 
phroditeSj a reparation of the two parts ? 
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