An essay on generation / by J. F. Blumenbach ; translated from the German.

  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Date:
[1792]
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Credit: An essay on generation / by J. F. Blumenbach ; translated from the German. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    do&rine of Evolution, the other to that of EpigenifiS. It is either fuppofed that the prepared, but at the fame time unorganized rudiments of the foetus, firft begins to be gradually or- ganized when it arrives at its place of defti- nation at a due time, and under the neceflary circumftances. This is the doctrine of Epi- genifis; Or, we deny every fort of generation, and believe that the germ of every animal, and every plant that ever has lived and ever will live, were all created at one and the fame time, namely, at the beginning of the world ; and that all that is necelTary is, that one generation fhould be developed after the other. Such is the celebrated theory of Evolution. But the manner in which this evolu- tion happens, has been differently accounted for. B 3 Heraclitus,
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