... indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders what wise hand teacheth them to doe what reason cannot teach us ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, Whales, Elephants, Dromidaries and Camels these I confesse, are the Colossus and Majestick pieces of her hand but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks, and the civilitie of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdome of their Maker.
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