Sec. 9.  Thus these three Receptacles were made in the same order which we have describ’d, and these were the first part of that great Mass which was form’d; now they stood in need of one another’s assistance; the first wanted the other two as Servants, and they again the assistance and guidance of the first, as their Master and Director; but both these Receptacles, tho’ inferior to the first, were nevertheless superior to all those Members which were form’d afterwards.  The first Receptacle, by the power of that Spirit which was joyn’d to it and its continual flaming Heat, was form’d into a Conical figure, like that of Fire, and by this means that thick Body, which was about it, became of the same figure, being solid Flesh cover’d with a thick Membrane.  This is what we call the Heart.  Now considering the great expence of Moisture, which must needs be where there is so much Heat, ’twas absolutely necessary, that there should be some part form’d, whose Office it should be continually to supply this defect; Otherwise it would have been impossible to have subsisted long.  ’Twas also necessary that [this forming Spirit] should have a Sense both of what was convenient for him, and what was hurtful, and accordingly attract the one and repel the other.  For these Services there were two parts form’d, with their respective Faculties, viz. the Brain and the Liver:  the first of these presided over all things relating to Sense, the latter over such things as belong’d to Nutrition:  both of these depended upon the Heart for a supply of Heat, and the recruiting of their proper Faculties.  To establish a good Correspondence between all these, there were Ducts and Passages interwoven, some bigger, some lesser, according as necessity requir’d; and these are the Arteries and Veins.

Thus much for a Taste; they that tell the Story go on farther, and give you a particular account of the Formation of all the parts, as the Physicians do of the Formation of the Foetus in the Womb, omitting nothing till he was compleatly form’d, and just like an Embryo ready for the Birth.  In this account they are forc’d to be beholding to this vast Mass of Earth, which you are to suppose was of a most exact mixture, and contain’d in it all manner of materials proper for the making Man’s Body, and those Skins, _&c._ which cover it; till at last, when he was Compleat in all his parts, as if the Mass had been in labour, those Coverings, which he was wrapp’d up in, burst asunder, and the rest of the Dirt dry-d and crack’d in pieces.  The Infant being thus brought into the World, and finding his Nourishment fail him, cry’d for want of Victuals, till the Roe which had lost her Fawn heard him.  Now, both those who are of the other Opinion and those who are for this kind of generation, agree in all the other particulars of his Education:  and what they tell us is this.