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mur made the fame experiment on bees. Their 
vindictive difpofition, when rudely handled, is 
well known. He left a whole fwarm, I know 
not how long, in water, and found them fo com- 
pletely deprived of fenfation, that he handled 
them at pleafure: he took them from the water, 
put them on a table, and examined whether or 
not there were feveral queens. The fame may 
be faid of the apparent death of frogs and newts ; 
after fome hours immerfion in water, their bo- 
dies become flaccid and drooping, juft as hap- 
pens in death. 
May not the apparent death of infe€ts and 
other animals be fimilar to that of wheel ani- 
mals among fand? But they preferve a real prin- 
ciple of fenfation and life, which the concurrence 
of certain circumftances is required to unfold and 
render capable of animating the whole fyftem. 
If the air becomes milder, motion and life re- 
turn in the animals torpid from cold. If the 
bees and flies that have been immerfed in water 
are expofed to the funfhine, they foon begin 
to move, expand their wings, and take flight. 
Frogs and newts recover their natural vivacity 
after being dry a little time. Why then cannot 
we fay there is fome latent fpark of life in the 
wheel animals, which the aid of water is required 
to difcover ? 
Il 4 Confidering 
