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The Book of Bugs. 



or careless, always degrades that which it is intended to 

 exalt. The bee is something vastly more worshipful 

 than an automaton that goes on mechanically making 

 hexagons world without end. It is a living organism 



Fig. 40. Formation of queen cells, on an ordinary comb. 



whose tiniest cell is all instinct with Mind Mind, that 

 differs in degree only from that of the Almighty God 

 Himself, in whom we live and move and have our being. 

 He has made us all, from the jellyfish to the philosopher, 

 " of one blood for to dwell on all the face of the earth," 

 and the bee is like us except that, instead of the individual 

 living a long time and learning as he grows, it is the race 



