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means of changing generations, the preserver and perpetuator of the fleeting things of mortal life ; which is omnipresent, not less in the single and several operations of natural things than in the infinite universe; which, by his deity or provi- dence, his art and mind divine, engenders all things; whether they arise spontaneously without any adequate efficient, or are the work of male and female associated together, or of a single sex, or of other intermediate instruments, here more nume- rous, there fewer; whether they be definite, or are equivocally or accidentally produced: all natural bodies are both the work and the instruments of that Supreme Good, for He also makes use of the motions, or forces, or vital principles, of animals in some certain way, to the perfection of the uni- verse and the procreation of the several kinds of animated beings.'
