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and reproduced every spring. It is thus 
she has created annual plants, whose 
species is only preserved by seeds, whilst 
others subsist entire ages, producing seed 
every year, which multiplies in its turn. 
May we not extend this comparison to 
the republic of bees, whose colonies are 
renewed by swarming? We know, by 
these great facts, that the same hand has 
created both the vegetable and the in- 
sect; but it would be wandering from 
our present subject to follow up these 
considerations, to which we are led even 
by the most trifling detail. 
