
90. The Hiftory of Burs. 
But it is nothing new, when we are > 
pinched with an Argument, and drove upon 
the. Horns, to have Recourfe to occult Qua- 
lities,, and occult Operations; plain Profef- 
hors of our Ignorance. 
Again; If this Principle be admitted, and 
we allow the Drones to be the Authors of 
fo prodigious an Increafe, why have not thefe 
Writers, who are Council for the Drones, 
and. fo zealoufly plead their Caufe, dignified 
and diftinguifhed them wich proper Titles 
and Appellations? If they are fully perfuaded 
in! their own Minds, anf{werable to this their 
open. publick Profeftion, why have they 
treated, them: fo long thus unkindly and in- ” 
jarioufly, with-holding thofe Titles of Ho- 
nour from them, to which their Character, 
the Pofts. they occupy, and the noble Of. 
fices they, difcharge, do fo juftly and indif- 
putably entitle them ? | 
Why mutt the Female be crowned with 
Honour and regal Dignities, and all the En- 
figns.of Royalty; when at the fame Time the 
| Malesrare. degraded, treated with the utmoft 
Contempt, triumphed over, and trampled 
upon by the Populace and Commonalty ; 
expelled. and banifhed, and, in a Word, flain 
without Mercy? Or have ‘thefe. Gentlemen 
quite forgot what they were taught when 
School-boys, that the Mafculine. Gender ier 
more worthy than the Feminine? 
But 
