The Swarm 



to that which already is seen ? Where 

 the anonymous prudence that selects and 

 abandons, raises and lowers ; that of so 

 many workers makes so many queens, 

 and of so many mothers can make a 

 people of virgins ? We have said else- 

 where that it lodged in the "Spirit of 

 the Hive," but where shall this spirit 

 of the hive be looked for if not in the 

 assembly of workers ? To be convinced 

 of its residence there, we need not per- 

 haps have studied so closely the habits 

 of this royal republic. It was enough 

 to place under the microscope, as Dujar- 

 din, Brandt, Girard, Vogel, and other 

 entomologists have done, the little un- 

 couth and careworn head of the virgin 

 worker side by side with the somewhat 

 empty skull of the queen and the male's 

 magnificent cranium, glistening with its 

 twenty-six thousand eyes. Within this 

 tiny head we should find the workings 



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