XVI ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



3d. Man's primeval state very strongly called for perhaps 

 absolutely demanded just such an article as the honey bee 

 would produce. 



4th. To have neglected to provide a creature so easy of pro- 

 duction, so important in the scale of being, and above all, so 

 very essential to the comfort of man, " for whom all things 

 were made," would have been totally discordant with the well 

 known principles of universal Divine benevolence. 



5th. History testifies positively to the existence and working 

 of the bee, within a comparatively short time after the general 

 creation. 



6th. History neither records, mentions or makes the remotest 

 allusion to any subsequent act of creation, either of this or any 

 other creature, save woman the "better half" of man himself. 



7th. Both the laws of physiology and the principles of anal- 

 ogy forbid the conjecture that it may be a hybrid race, result- 

 ing from the intercommunication of some two other preceding 

 species. 



8th. There was no law, physical, moral or divine, to inter- 

 fere with or to preclude such a creation, among the labors of 

 that great fundamental " week" 



9th. Since we know that the Creator did prepare a garden 

 with blooming flowers and ripening fruit, for the sustenance 

 and the pleasure of man, to which He introduced him on the 

 very morning of his creation ; and since honey was so import- 

 ant to man's comfort and happiness, we have not only no rea- 

 son to doubt, but the strongest possible reasons for believing 

 that He also provided this fundamental saccharinum, prepared 

 in nature's own refinery and that our first parents actually 

 found " honey and the honey-comb " in the garden, among " the 



