The Life of the Bee 



rest? They give their love to what lies 

 ahead of them ; we bestow ours on what is 

 around. And we who love here, perhaps, 

 have no love left for what is beyond. 

 Nothing varies so much as the direction 

 of pity or charity. We ourselves should 

 formerly have been far less shocked than 

 we are to-day at the insensibility of the 

 bees ; and to many an ancient people such 

 conduct would not have seemed blame- 

 worthy. And further, can we tell how 

 many of the things that we do would 

 shock a being who might be watching 

 us as we watch the bees ? 



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