Not a few old Authors[69] imagined there were several Cells and Ditches in the Uterus for the Reception of Fœtus’s of the different Sexes; and those who were of Opinion that the Cells were but seven, thought that three were on the Right-side for Males; as many on the Left, for Females; and the seventh in the middle for Hermaphrodites; which were generated, whenever the Semen Virile happen’d to fall into it. Another[70] supposes but three, one on each side for Males and Females, and the central Cell for Androgyni; and that ‘Nature always intends the Formation of a Male, being inclin’d to form the best; that a Woman is but a Man, having an accidental Change in the Parts, and is therefore a Monster in Nature; that a Male is always begotten, but because of the ill Disposition of the Matrix and the Object it contains, and the Inequality of the Semen, (whensoever Nature cannot accomplish the Formation of a perfect Man) a Female or Hermaphrodite must be the Consequence[71].’ If Nature intended the Procreation of no Sex but the Male, there would have been no Female; but if it was, at first, necessary, that a Female should accompany the Male in order to propagate their Likeness and Species, without which (it is evident) Generation could neither have been begun nor carry’d on, the same Necessity must always hold, and a Race of Females as well as Males ought always to continue, in order to carry on that great Work. How then are Women Monsters in Nature? The first Woman as well as the first Man, when created, were endowed with different Organs serving to Generation, tho’ in all other Respects alike in their Members; and since every Woman afterwards had no difference in the Formation of those Parts, but must have been exactly the same with her Female Predecessors, even back to the first; by what Reason can her Parts be accounted monstrous or accidentally changed? Besides, whatsoever is monstrous in Nature ought to be of no further Use in the Oeconomy of that particular System to which it properly may be said to belong, if in a natural State. But this Hypothesis is of such a Nature, as scarce to be worth taking any more trouble to confute, being the produce of a mere Monster in Nature. St _Augustin_,[72] who was more inclin’d to deal in Matters metaphysical than natural, makes a long detail of several Kinds of Cripples, and what he calls monstrous Kinds of Men, such as, those having but one Eye in the Forehead, Pigmies, Sciopoda’s, Cynocephales, and such like; and proposes this Question: Whether it was from _Adam_, or the Sons of _Noah_, that such Kinds of Men had proceeded? But seems to believe that whatsoever they be, they were brought upon the Earth by the special Appointment of God[73]. This he gives as the Cause in general, but argues that the same will hold for those particularly believed to exist in this Part of the World, as Hermaphrodites, and those of a doubtful Sex[74].