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Excerpt from Observations Upon the Generation, Composition, and Decomposition of Animal and Vegetable Substances: Communicated in a Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq., President of the Royal Society 5 7. Thus this new 'syem of Generation foon be Came a favourite Opinion of the hit Age, as it is in deed (fill of this for the mof't part; and many ingenious Methods were imagined of anfwering the Difficulties from Obfervation that feem'd to Oppofe it. The more antient Hypothefis of female Eggs was at Mt blended with it, and borh were work'd up into one Syfiem: Their real Exience was determined, with their Form, Colour, Size, Situation, and the Me chanifm of their Conveyance to the Womb; and imaginary Valves were appointed in each Egg, ad mitting one, excluiive' of every other fpermatic Animal; Happy thefiri't of thefeminute Beings1 that could take Pofi'eion of this-little Cell, and' {hut the Door agaihil contending 'millions! Hi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.