Yet the belief in generatio equivoca has not long been dead.
Putrefaction is one of the forms of corruption (= breaking up) and corruptio unius est generatio alterius (the breaking up of one is the begetting of another).
We have the choice of only two explanations: either it has risen by itself, out of unorganic, dead matter, or it was produced by the hand of a Creator: either by generatio aequivoca or the act of creation.
Virchow says in this respect: "If I do not wish to assume a creative act, if I desire to explain the matter in my way, then it is clear that I must resort to generatio aequivoca.
Now there has never been observed a generatio aequivoca, as is testified to by natural science itself, and never has it been accomplished in the laboratory.
If this is the first thesis, the second thesis is, ergo, I accept the generatio aequivoca.
Of the causes of the appearance of the individual creature it has little to say, for in all cases this is procreation (the theory of which is a separate matter), and in rare cases the generatio aequivoca.
It originally appears ingeneratio aequivoca; afterwards in assimilation to the given germ, organic moisture, plant, animal, man.
The war which has been waged for the last ten or fifteen years against generatio oequivoca, with its premature shouts of victory, was the prelude to the denial of the vital force, and related to it.
For it is not absurd, like that generatio aequivoca by which is understood the production of an organised being through the mechanics of crude unorganised matter.
Only experience gives no example of it; according to experience all generation that we know is generatio homonyma.
It would always remain generatio univoca in the most universal sense of the word, for it only considers one organic being as derived from another organic being, although from one which is specifically different; e.
The creation proper and the propagation that is sequent thereupon, or the Generatio originaria and secundaria.
All generation is Generatio æquivoca; whether imparted by sexes or not.
This origin of the organic primary bodies I designateGeneratio originaria, Creation.
To go farther, and to assert that a generatio spontanea is absolutely impossible under any conditions, on earth or elsewhere, is arbitrary, just as it is to assert the contrary.
On the other hand it was one of the characteristics and axioms of scientific thought to reject this naive generatio equivoca, and to hold fast to the proposition, omne vivum ex ovo, or, at least, omne vivum ex vivo.
All nature is subject to change, and we have seen that all change is ruled by the law: Generatio unius est corruptio alterius.
Hence the scholastic aphorism regarding substantial change: Corruptio unius est generatio alterius: the corruption or destruction of one kind of material thing involves the generation of another kind.
The assertion of an empirical origin would attribute to them a sort of generatio aequivoca.
Systems seem, like certain worms, to be formed by a kind of generatio aequivoca--by the mere confluence of conceptions, and to gain completeness only with the progress of time.
In spontaneous generation, which is often also called original generation (generatio spontanea, aequivoca, primaria etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "generatio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
