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mr. 
Their Sex, &e. QI 
But) when we are lawfully merty, we 
eught alfo to be wife, and think foberly, do 
nothing rafhly, but proceed with the greateft 
Deliberation’ and Caution. Here then it 
miuft be confidered, that fhould fuch and fo 
great a: Number, (even a whole Clafs) be at” 
once thus confecrated, and become Kings 
and Princes, what Confyfion would this im- 
mediately and inevitably produce; the ne- 
ceflary Confequence of which, would be the 
fpeedy and total Deftru@tion of the State, 
Such an Ariftocratical Government would 
be utterly inconfiftent with it’s Safety. 
How could an Empire or a Kingdom 
poflibly fubfift, in which there were (fup- 
pofe) Ten or Twenty Pretenders to the 
Crown, all claiming the Royal Authority? 
In. fuch Cafe it would be no Difficulty to 
foretell the State of fuch a Kingdom. 
I therefore’ leave the Readers to judge 
whether thefe Authors, aware of this Abfur- 
dity, and: apprehenfive of the unhappy Con- 
fequences, did not out of Defign wave that 
Title ; or for fome other Reafon. But to 
proceed: 
May we not alfo argue againft this No- 
tion from the prodigious Number of Drones? 
If one fingle Bee, (fuppofe a Female) be 
fufficient to produce ten or twelve thoufand 
in one Summer, what Occafion can there 
be, of Neceffity, for many Hundreds, nay 
fometimes Thoufands (as in ftrong Stocks 
Or 
