But _Gorræus_ differs from _Averroës_, as _Liebaultius_ relates, who would not place the Cause of Hermaphrodites in the whole seminal Mass, but only in those Parts of it that are chiefly concern’d in contributing to the Formation of the Parts of Generation of both Sexes; and therefore, so general a mistake is not to be ascribed to him, as to the former, tho’ his Supposition is altogether as ill grounded. _Peucerus_[59] comes into a Class with _Averroës_, but tacks some little Addition to the Doctrine of the latter, of a Superabundance, or Scarcity in any Parts of the Semen, their producing a Superfluity or want of any of the Members of the Body; he says[60], ‘If for making two Bodies the Matter is deficient, but is too much for one, the Vis Plastica forms more Limbs than are natural.’ A little after he adds[61], ‘In this Manner Hermaphrodites and Androgyni are begotten, who have the Parts of both Sexes; although one of them may be weaker and of less Efficacy than the other, and sometimes it happens that one may be changed or quite abolish’d.’ This Opinion in general is pretty near that of the former Author; but when he says, that one of the Sexes in an Hermaphrodite may be changed, or quite destroyed, it is somewhat obscure, and difficult to reconcile to the first Part of his Opinion; for first, he says, pursuant to the same Cause, of the Redundancy of such and such Matter, Hermaphrodites arise, ‘quibus sexus utriusque membra insunt,’ and then, _altho’ one of the Sexes may be weaker and of no Efficacy_; nay, _sometimes one may be changed or quite abolish’d_. Indeed when he says, that one of the Sexes in an Hermaphrodite is of no Efficacy, he is right; for our reputed Androgyni, which are the Macroclitorideæ, have one of theirs so, which is the Clitoris; and consequently ought to be deny’d the Character of an Hermaphrodite; but when he says, one of the Sexes is chang’d, he can, with less right, call them Hermaphrodites. If one be changed, it must be to some other Sex; and as there are but two, then there must be a double Male or female Sex, upon the Alteration, and all this, after they have become of this double Nature, according to the Cause in the first Part of his Opinion; for a Change is consequent to the former State of the thing changed. But, in fine, when one Sex is abolish’d, there ought to remain but a perfect Man, or Woman; how therefore can this most unaccountable Variety be said to proceed from a Redundancy of Particles of any kind whatsoever.