ss THE HISTORY OF BEES, 
“ traying a meannefs, poverty and impotency in the a- | 
<¢ sent ; but thofe of nature plainly proving that the 
s¢ hand that formed them, was abfolute mafter of the 
&¢ materials it wrought upon, having tools exa@lly fuit- 
<¢ able to it’s whole defign. Every hair, feather or feale, 
¢ even of the meaneft infeé&t, appears polifhed and f- 
& nifhed to the higheft pitch; and fhews the abundant 
é¢ riches, munificence, and {kill of it’s maker. | 
The works of nature then as far furpafs the moft per- 
feet works of art, as infinite wifdom and power furpafs 
what are merely finjte. Jn all human operations, we 
fee little but inequalities and deformities. “The bounds 
of their abilities appearing therein; every part demon- 
ftrating the Author’s imperfection ; byt the works of the 
Creator are every way perfec. 
The performance of the moft perfect artift, fet in 
competition with thofe of the great Architea, are poor, 
mean, inelegant, incompleat, bungling in every part; 
and in the whole dilpropoytionates irregular and defotm- 
ed. 
The faregoing remarks, [have inferted from Mr, Ba- 
fer’s great improvement of the microfcope, in difcover- 
ing the fecret beauties of nature ( fo highly acceptable to 
the learned world) chiefly for the fake of thofe readers, 
who may want an opportunity to perufe the original. 
As to the feveral fenfes, Bees feem to have them i in 
very great perfection. 
They are quick of fight ; tho’ fome apprehend a de. 
fe&t therein, obferving them coming out of the hive, 
to wipe their 7 hi with their fote-legs before their flight. 
Their 
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