’Tis a Necessary piece of Providence, in the Institution of our Children,
to Train them up to somewhat in their Youth, that may Honestly Maintain
them in their Age. If the _Bee_ had taken the Necessities of the _Gnat_
into her Consideration, as she did the Profession, she would have thought
her self bound in Tenderness and Good Nature, according to the Moral of
the Fable, to have Contributed to her Relief: But the Stress is rather
to be laid upon a Preference of an Education of Industry, to That of
Pleasure, and to shew, that we are in the First Place to Consult the
Necessities of Life, rather then Matters of Ornament and Delight.