The Young Queens 
demands. Nature, however, heedless of 
these more intrinsic causes, is so deeply 
concerned with the multiplication of 
males, that we sometimes find, in mother- 
less hives, two or three workers possessed 
of so great a desire to preserve the race 
that, their atrophied ovaries notwithstand- 
ing, they will still endeavour to lay; and, 
their organs expanding somewhat beneath 
the empire of this exasperated sentiment, 
they will succeed in depositing a few eggs 
in the cells; but from these eggs, as from 
those of the virgin mother, there will 
issue only males. 
[77] 
Here we behold the active intervention 
of a superior though perhaps imprudent 
will, which offers irresistible obstruction 
to the intelligent will of a life. In the 
insect world such interventions are com- 
paratively frequent, and much can be 
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