Excerpt from The Complete Master-Piece of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man, To Which Is Added, a Treatise Relating, to Physiognomy, Palmistry, &C., &C, I T is strange to see how things are slight gd only because they are common, though 111 themselves worthy of the most serious con §ideration. This is the ve? Case of the sub Ject I am now treatingo What 13 more common than the begettin of children. I and what 15 more wonderful thgan the pie stio pow er of nature, by which children are iformed. F or though there 13 radicated in the tery na ture of all creatures a propensi'on which lead them to produce the 1mage of themselves, yet how these images are produced after those propensions are satisfied is only known to those who trace the secret meanders of 11a tu1e in their pri1ste chambers, to those dark recesses of the womb whe1e this emb1yo 1e cei1es fo1mation. 'l he original of which proceeds from the di1ine command, inarcava and multi/zly. The natural inclination and propensity of both sexes to each Other, 111th the plastic power of nature, is only the ener gy of the first blessings, which to this day up.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.