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586 ON CONCEPTION.
phosis, viz. insects, as of spontaneously generated beings, in whose ova or " primordia," as in all other seeds, the " species" or immaterial " form" plainly dwells, the moving principle, as it were, of those things which are to be generated), and when I speak of the soul and its affections, and how art, memory, and experience are to be regarded as the conceptions of the brain alone.
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