The Life of the Bee 



always to face the light. It is their love of 

 the light, it is their very intelligence, that 

 is their undoing in this experiment of the 

 English savant. They evidently imagine 

 that the issue from every prison must be 

 there where the light shines clearest ; and 

 they act in accordance, and persist in too 

 logical action. To them glass is a super- 

 natural mystery they never have met 

 with in nature ; they have had no ex- 

 perience of this suddenly impenetrable 

 atmosphere ; and, the greater their in- 

 telligence, the more inadmissible, more 

 incomprehensible, will the strange ob- 

 stacle appear. Whereas the feather- 

 brained flies, careless of logic as of the 

 enigma of crystal, disregarding the call of 

 the light, flutter wildly hither and thither, 

 and, meeting here the good fortune that 

 often waits on the simple, who find 

 salvation there where the wiser will 

 perish, necessarily end by discovering 



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