118 “The Hiftory of Burs.) 
- How my fterious is Nature in her Opera’ 
tions; which not only puzzle and deceive’ 
our bodily Senfe, but alfo’ fo far tranfcend 
our intellectual Patrets| | * 
ee is difputed whether the Infe@ adtually 
dies at the Time of it’s Transformation, 
It is a living Creature before fuch Change ; 
hath it’s peculiar Form, furnifhed with every 
Member fuitable to it’s Nature; and bears 
not the leaft Similitude to that. winged In- 
fect, which is fubftituted in it's Room, and 
occupies it’s Place. Thus divefted of it’s 
effential Parts, muft it not inevitably die? 
Doth not the Deprivation of the effential 
Parts neceflarily imply the Deteaehpn of 
the whole? 
There is a. living Buby in the pre- 
ceding Animal; yet if we regard it’s Form 
and Manner. of fubfifting, (quoad hoc) it 
actually dies; and gives place to a Suc- 
ceffor, 
At laf bana gone thro’ all thefe yi 
in the Space of 18 or 26 Days, it is a 
perfect Bee; and feeks to difcharge itfelf 
from a Confinement, no longer to be borne; 
with it’s Jaws opening ‘a “Way thro’ the 
Cover of Wax, which fecured it in the Cell 
from the chilling Air, and every other In- 
jury. Now may you (at the: Glafs- Window) 
4.c one Horn appear, then the Head entire, 
and afterwards the whole Body (as the 
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