WAS) THE HISTORY .OF: BEES, 
of viewing them at all feafons, not only when the boxes 
- are full of Bees, but when almoft deftitute. 
But it is nothing new, when we are pinched with an 
argument, dnd drove upon the horns, to have recourfe 
{6 occult qualities, and occult Bist 5 din profef- 
fions of our ignorance, 
Again; if this principle be admitted, and we allow 
the Drones to be the authors of fo prodiztous an increafe, 
why have not thefe writers, who are counfe] for the 
Drones, and fo zelaoufly plead their caufe, dignified and 
diftinguifhed them with proper titles and appellations? 
if they are fully perfuaded in their own minds, anfwer- 
able to this their open publick profeffion, why have they 
treated them fo long thus unkindly and injurioufly, with- 
holden thofe titles of honour from them, to which their 
tharatter, the pofts they occupy, and the noble offices 
they difcharge, do fo juftly and indifputably entitle 
them? 
Why muft the female be crown’d with honour and 
“yegal dignities, and all the enfigns of royalty ; when at 
the fame time the males are degraded, treated with the 
utmoft contempt, triumphed over, and trampled upon 
by the populace and commonality ; expelled and banifh- 
eas and, in a word, flain without mercy ? 
How could an empire or a kingdom poffibly fubfift, 
jn which there were (fuppofe) ten or twenty pretenders 
to > the crown, all mised ae dee authority? in fuch 
a Kingdom, : 
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