The Intelligence whose Business it is to compose the little Body of
Hermaphrodites, is very much disturb'd to meet with a Matter that is
intractable for the regular forming of the Genital Parts. On one side
the Matter is moist and loose, on the other close and dry; here 'tis hot
and there 'tis cold. This Matter is so different and consists of such
rebellious Particles, that 'tis impossible to manage it, and the
quantity of Matter is so small that it is destitute of Heat, without
which the Intelligence cannot perfectly form all parts of the Body. If
the Matter turns to a Male, he will be too dull and too cold to
Engender, and will be imperfect in his privy Parts; if it proves a
Female, she will in time be of too hot and dry a Nature, and will be
Deficient of Organs for the Seed and menstruous Blood, in order to Form
and Nourish a Child.
This Intelligence, or the immortal Soul that works from the Beginning,
in all probability about the thirty fifth Day begins to be employ'd in
making the privy Parts of a Boy, for which purpose it lays hold on the
Matter at first Elected for that end, and which it put in the first
place, where the privy Parts ought to be. This being done, it works
continually, but wanting Matter to perfect the privy Parts, it borrows
of the Neighbouring Parts, chusing rather to render others Disfigur'd,
than to be wanting in the compleat Forming of the Parts that must serve
for Generation.
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