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OETA ELH IEE ERED ples 
Their OEconomy, or Form of Government, 
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END ices our utmoft attention and regard, is 
We _moft obvious and vifible in innumerable o- 
WOW: PF ther inflances ; fo likewife in thefe little, 
yet mall F admirable infects, They are aperfect monarchy, 
agreeable to the original plan: they cannot thrive, nor 
live, but in fociety, and undet a Sovereign, And what 
would be the fate of this univerfal empire, were itnot , 
“for an infinitely wife and powerful fuperintendency ? 
The ants may be confidered as a democracy, or com-_ 
mon-wealth, having no overfeer, or ruler; but in thefe 
infets God hath fhewed to men the exprefs pattern 
of aeperfect monarchy ; the molt natural and abfolute 
form of government.* 
Without a prefident, or ruler, they will do no manner 
of work : neither gather wax, nor honey, nor other 
materials ; nor can they breed, and propagate their own 
kind, without fuch a commander. If a ftock, they 
would yield to robbers ; or elfe languifh and pine them- 
, {-lves to death, and the whole fociety moft certainly perifh. 
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Dr, Butler's Fem, Morar, 
