102 The Hiftory of Bers. 
But this is not without Objections. “Hi- 
therto I never could obferve any material 
Service done to Hives or Colonies by their 
Means. | 
It ‘is ‘certain, that feveral $éts or 
Broods of young Bees are perfected, and 
engaged in the ufeful and common La- 
bours, before any of thefe appear in the 
Hive, or have an Exiftence; no Dronés 
being produced till the latter End af April, 
or till Aday; many times not before “fune, © 
or “fuly; nor all that Summer in poor and 
weak Stocks. st 
‘And it is a very frequent and common 
Obfervation, and experimentally known, not 
to a few, that confiderable Numbers are 
hatched, and the Hives well replenifhed 
with common Bees, and ready to fend forth 
new Colonies or Swarms, before thefe are | 
in Being. How then is this poffible? I _ 
wifh thefe wife and penetrating Gentlemen 
had better inftruéted us, and let us into the 
profound Myftery, and told us how, or by 
what fecret andcunning Art they contributed 
fo abundantly towards the Lives of others, 
fo many Months before they had received 
any of their own. At that Time, and all that 
Time they were mere Nullity, Non-Enti-— 
ties, and had no Power of Acting.* How 1 
highly, how infinitely obliging to the World, — 
had but thefe Miracle-Mongers communi- | 
cated 
* Ex nibilo nibil ft. Quod non eft non operat. | 
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