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Supposing now this amicable Engagement of Nature to be over, I may be modestly allow’d (I hope) to add a few Words upon its necessary Consequences; and First, of what has happen’d in the Act, Retention, and Conception following.

FIRST then, If the Woman has contributed most Seminal Matter, it may reasonably be concluded, that the Child will favour the Mother most: If the Man predominantly, the Father: If Both equally, it will resemble Both, or in part the Father, and partly the Mother.

AND according to Anaxagoras, if the Seed has flown into the Right Side of the Womb, from the Right Rein of the Man, a Male will be conceiv’d; if into the Left, from the Left Rein, a Female; by reason of the Frigidity and Humidity of that Place. Which Notion may seem probable; considering, that tho’ the Womb has but one Cavity, yet it has two Sinuses^[40] for conceiving the Two different Sexes: As Nature has in other Respects accordingly given the Woman two Breasts.