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dependence, and that if one is supposed to be 

 abstracted, the whole is put out of order and 

 cannot fulfill its evident functions. If we 

 select, as a well known instance, the Hive-bee 

 for an example. Its long tongue is specially 

 formed to collect honey ; its honey stomach to 

 receive and elaborate it either for regurgitation, 

 or for the formation of wax ; and other organs 

 or pores are added, by which the latter can be 

 transmitted to the wax pockets under its abdo- 

 men ; connected with these, are its means and 

 instruments to build its cells, either for store 

 cells to contain its honey and bee-bread, or its 

 young brood, such as the form of its jaws, 

 and the structure and furniture of its hind 

 legs. Now here are a number of organs and 

 parts that must have been contemporary, since 

 one is evidently constructed with a view to 

 the other : and the whole organization and 

 structure of the whole body forming the 

 societies of these wonder-working beings, that 

 I mean, of the males, females, and workers, 

 is so nicely adjusted, as to concur exactly in 

 producing the end that an intelligent Creator 

 intended, and directing each to that function 

 and office which he devolved upon them, and 

 to exercise which he adapted them. Were we 



