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First Society of Adherents to Divine Revelation at Orbiston

Published: 1826

Total Pages: 298


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Excerpt from The Revolt of the Bees It is related in Kirby and Spence's Introduction to Entomology, that the bees in their excursions, "furnish themselves with three different materials, the nectar of flowers from which they elaborate honey and wax; the pollen or fertilizing dust of the anthers, of which they make what is called bee-bread, serving as food both to old and young, &c." - Vol. ii. p. 176. "The Society of a hive of bees, besides the young brood, consists of one female or queen; several hundreds of males or drones; and many thousand workers." - vol. ii. p.125. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... so that very large supplies were sent to distant hives where machines were not in use. These exportations were considered by the legislatores as undoubted proofs of prosperity: and when it was urged upon them that the workers, the great majority of the bees, could not be benefited by exportation, they turned a deaf ear to the complaint, and still exultingly pointed to the stream of honey issuing rapidly from the hiveb. But there were periods when honey and wax would become scarce in consequence of foreign orders, and labour would then be in demand; so that the workers perceived they were treated like inanimate beings, to be used or laid aside according to the exigencies of the times. As in seasons of abundance they were b " One great and common error, amidst a multitude of other errors, is the confounding the people with the government. The people are supposed to be happy whensoever the government prospers. Instead of keeping in view the good of individuals, nothing is considered but the growth and duration of empires, --as if the public prosperity and the general felicity were two inseparable matters."--Chatelur on Public Happiness, vol. i. p. 41. "Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Goldsmith's Deserted Village. obliged to submit to the terms of their directors, they began to think that when they were most required they were entitled to a larger share of honey, of which they were the only producers. They abandoned their employments, and assembled tumultuously, to enforce more favourable conditions. The directors and the affluent bees alleged, that when the workers were amply compensated for their...