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Philosophical observations on the analogy between the propagation of animals and that of vegetables: in which are answered some objections against the indivisibility of the soul ... drawn from the late ... experiments upon the polypus ... With an explanation of the manner in which each piece of a divided polypus becomes another perfect animal / By James Parsons.

  • Parsons, James, 1705-1770.
Date:
1752
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Credit: Philosophical observations on the analogy between the propagation of animals and that of vegetables: in which are answered some objections against the indivisibility of the soul ... drawn from the late ... experiments upon the polypus ... With an explanation of the manner in which each piece of a divided polypus becomes another perfect animal / By James Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Accretion of the Organization; and capa¬ ble of being joined by fimilar Particles, arifing from the general nutritious Juices in the Earth, their natural Matrix. To illuftrate this, I fhall here mention a few Obfervations out of many of my own, which, upon considering them, gave me the Notion of accounting for the natural Secretions of Animal as well as Vegetable Bodies, upon my prefent Plan; and which ferve, more and more, to proclaim that Uniformity in thefe two general Parts of the Creation, which points out an Allwife and Allpowerful Creator. The firft Seed I (hall take Notice of is that of the Angelica, which, after it is Vegetables, that there fhould be every-where a Magazine of Particles, fuited to every differing Plant, wherefoever its Seed falls, ready to be attracted in the Courfe of its Ac¬ cretion } rather than to imagine, that the leaft Change, in any Fluid, can be brought about by fuch minute Bodies. diverted