| ### QUESTION 98 ### OF THE PRESERVATION OF THE SPECIES ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We next consider what belongs to the preservation of the species; and, first, of generation; secondly, of the state of the offspring. Under the first head there are two points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether in the state of innocence there would have been generation? #### (2) Whether generation would have been through coition? ####  |