Though the World was lead on to credit and countenance those Whims till _Cicero_’s Time, and supposing none were found able or willing to set People right in this Opinion before him; yet we may, with great Assurance, ask, why the Learned since him should neglect the Hint given by that wise Man in his Book _De Divinatione_, where we find him making a Banter of several Superstitions then in Vogue with the _Romans_; among which he does not forget to enumerate the _Androgyni_[23]. ‘_Quid cum Cumis Apollo sudavit, capuæ victoria? Quid ortus Androgyni? nonne fatale quoddam Monstrum fuit?_’ Sure this, as well as any other Matter, worth the Notice of that noble Author, ought well to bespeak the Attention and Consideration of the whole World after him. Several _Jewish_ Rabbins, and most of the _Hebrews_ before them, were of Opinion, that _Adam_ was first made an _Androgynus_[24], on the fore Part a Male, and behind a Female; that these were afterwards separated, and the female Part called _Eve_. This was their Manner of explaining those Passages of the Old Testament, ‘Male and Female created he them;’ and again, ‘Thou hast formed me behind and before:’ These Opinions gave Birth to many others afterwards, as well among the Pagan Philosophers, as among many Christian Divines; some of whom, in the Time of Pope _Innocent_ the Third were so far Followers of the Rabbins, that they thought the Sexes in _Adam_ would never have been divided if he had not sinned; which was granting that _Adam_ was created an Hermaphrodite, and that the two Sexes were taken asunder afterwards. Others[25] of these believed so firmly that Hermaphrodites existed, that they took Pains to confute the above Opinion, only fearing lest such should assume to themselves to have been the first human Creatures made, from the Words above-mentioned, ‘God created Man Male and Female, _&c._’ and consequently the most worthy. From all these Things we see how little it is to be wondered at, that the Majority of the World should be thus riveted in their Notions of Hermaphrodites, since it appears, that Doctors of the _Jewish_, _Pagan_, and Christian Churches have been Promoters of them from Time to Time, by Doubts and Sentiments in themselves so trivial, as not to deserve any Credit from an impartial and judicious Reader.