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BUT I should rather in this Topick agree with Velthuysius^[42], that Both Seeds are each of them naturally endued with the Faculty of generating its Like: I mean, the Man’s, to produce a Male; and the Woman’s, a Female: And that therefore by a natural Predominancy, where the Masculine Faculty has prevail’d, a Man-Child is begot; and a Girl, where the Feminine Virtue has exceeded it.

THIS, in short, is the best and only Reason I know, why Children like to either Parent in Sex, may yet differ in Physiognomy, Manners, &c: the Seed of the one perhaps prevailing in making the Sex, and That of the other, in determining the rest of the Parts. Hence it is, in all Probability, that a Child like his Father in Sex, may be like his Mother in natural Disposition and Tenderness of Constitution. Although by the way (without doubt) the Place or Sinus of the Womb, Matter, Heat, and Imagination of the Woman, contribute very much to the Difference of the Sex; as will hereafter more plainly appear at large. AND, in fine, This is the only Cause of the Conception of Hermaphrodites, that the emitted Substance of Both Parents containing the full respective Faculty of Each, is sufficiently prolifick and prevalent to constitute and distinguish each proper Sex, in one and the same personal Production. But before I proceed farther on the Similitude of Children, I beg leave previously to describe the Force of IMAGINATION.