Because the outside of women is "more curiously wove" and like "fine cloth" in comparison to men's coarseness, "There is no Reason to imagine, that Nature should have been more neglectful of them out of Sight, than she has where we can trace her; and not have taken the same Care of them in the Formation of the Brain, as to the Nicety of the Structure, and superior Accuracy in the Fabrick, which is so visible in the rest of their Frame."
The Fable of the Bees. Part II.
Complicated publication history. At least 16 entries for <u>The Fable of the Bees</u>  in ESTC (1729, 1732, 1733, 1734, 1740, 1750, 1755, 1755, 1772, 1795).<br>
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<u>The Grumbling Hive</u> was printed as a pamphlet in 1705. 1st edition of <u>The Fable of the Bees</u> published in 1714, 2nd edition in 1723 (with additions, essays "On Charity Schools" and "Nature of Society"). Part II, first published in 1729. Kaye's text based on 6th edition of 1732.<br>
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See <u>The Fable of the Bees. Part II. By the Author of the First.</u> (London: Printed: and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1729). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T78343">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB129250300&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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See also Bernard Mandeville, <u>The Fable of the Bees</u>, ed. F.B. Kaye, 2 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1988). Orig. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Reading first volume in Liberty Fund paperback; also searching online ed. &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Mandeville0162/FableOfBees/0014-01_Bk.html#hd_lf14v1.head.037">Link to OLL</a>&gt;<br>
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I am also working with another print edition: <u>The Fable of the Bees</u>, ed. F. B. Kaye, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957). 