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This manner of Qeconomy or Government 
amongft the Ants may be efteemed a particular 
Inftance of divine Wifdom. Had the common 
Workers been of either Sex, it muft have given 
a great deal of Interruption to their Labours, and 
have often interfered with that Affiduity required 
in Breeding up the young Offspring. At the fame 
Time there is fuch a ftrong expreffive *Affe£tion 
imprinted on them towards the Eggs, as cannot 
but fliew it to be the Refult of a fuperior Good- 
nefs. Had the Queens been more numerous, it 
would have engaged too large a Circle of Atten¬ 
dants ; had they been lefs, or equal with Regard to 
Size, it would not fo well have anfwered the differ¬ 
ent Proportions of Young obfervable in the feveral 
Colonies. So exadt are the Wonders of Providence ! 
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in nothing fuperfluous or deficient. 
* Mr. Derham juftly calls this their unparallelled 
Xt or Tendernefs towards their Young. 
Derham "s Phyfi Theoh B. 8. cap. 5. 
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