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Excerpt from The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher: In Four Parts; Containing, His Complete Master-Piece; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man; To Which Is Added, the Family Physician; Being Approved Remedies for the Several Distempers Incident to the Human Body
IT is (image to fee how things are {lighted - only be caui'e they are common, though in themlelves worthy the moti ferions confideration this is the very cafe ofthe (abject I am now treating of. Whatis more common than the begetting of children i And what is more wonderful than the plaftic power of natue, by which children are formed 3 For tho' there is radicated in the very nature of all creatures, a propenfion which leads them to produce the image of the (elves, yet how theic images are produced after thot'a propenfi s are fatisficcl, is only known to thofe who trace the fecret meanders of nature in their private chambers, to thof e dark rece lies of'the womb, where this embryo receives formation; The originalof which proceeds from the divine command, intrea e antlmultiply. _the'natural inclination and propenlity of both exes to each other, the plaltic power ofna tore, is only theener y ofthe firlt bleffing, which to this'day upholds the fpecies o mankind in the world.
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