Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with…

What moves the Swallows upon the approach of Winter to fly to a more temperate Clime, as if they understood the Celestial Signs, the Influences of the Stars, and the Changes of the Seasons? From whence comes the fore-sight of the Ants to provide in Summer for Winter? their economy fervour, ⟨p. 32⟩their discretion in assisting one another, as if knowing that every one laboured for all, and where the benefit is common the labour must be common; their care to fortify their receptacles with a bank of Earth that in great rains, it may not be overflowed, have made them the fit emblems of prudent diligence.

What moves the Swallows upon the approach of Winter to fly to a more temperate Clime, as if they understood the Celestial Signs, the Influences of the Stars, and the Changes of the Seasons? From whence comes the fore-sight of the Ants to provide in Summer for Winter? their oeconomy fervour, ⟨p. 32⟩their discretion in assisting one another, as if knowing that every one labour'd for all, and where the benefit is common the labour must be common; their care to fortifie their receptacles with a banck of Earth that in great rains, it may not be overflowed, have made them the fit emblems of prudent diligence.

This is excellently described by Virgil.

Ac veluti ingentem formicae farris acervum, Cum populant, Hyenis memores, tectoque reponunt, It nigrum campis agmen, praedamque per herbas Convectant call angusto, pars grandia trudunt Obnixa frumenta humeris, pars agmima cogunt, ⟨p. 33⟩