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the power of raising another from offspring in the cells 

 by an almost miraculous process : they work under 

 her government for a common object, allow males 

 only to exist for a specific purpose and limited time ; 

 and, under the government of females who preserve 

 the society, they send forth swarms, which readily 

 place themselves under the protection of man. In 

 the geometrical construction of their cells, the secretion 

 of wax from their bodies, the collecting their food, and 

 the care of the brood, there is a series of results which 

 it requires a strong reason to follow, and which are 

 the consequences of invariable instincts. Bees, since 

 they have been noticed by naturalists, have the same 

 habits, and as it is probable that there have been 

 many thousand of generations since the creation, it is 

 evident that the instincts of the first bees have been 

 hereditary and invariable in their offspring; and it 

 cannot be doubted, that they do now, as they did four 

 thousand years ago, make some cells in combs larger 

 than others for the purpose of containing the eggs 

 and future grubs of drones, that are to be produced by 

 a grub, which they are educating for a queen bee ; 

 and that these cells are connected with the common 

 cells by a series, in which the most exact geometrical 

 laws of transition are observed. An eminent 

 philosopher has deduced an argument in favour of 

 the existence of Deity from the analogy of the universe 



