loS THE HONEY-BEE. 



wonderful adaptation, of each of its parts to the varied 

 functions required of them. Whether observed by the 

 unassisted eye, or by a lens of low or high power, we 

 cannot fail to see how exquisitely each minutest 

 portion is fashioned; how remarkably the various 

 organs are protected according to their delicacy ; 

 how supplied with nerve-fibre in proportion to the 

 sensitiveness required in them ; how supplementary 

 one to another in their diverse duties ; how harmo- 

 nious in their working ; and how fitted as a whole 

 to the wants and the instincts of the insects to which 

 they belong. Nor, as it seems to us, is it possible to 

 believe that any force of evolution, unguided by 

 a distinctly controlling and Divine creative power, 

 could ever have elaborated organs so precisely what 

 might have been expected to result from the exercise 

 of infinite wisdom and manifest purpose. 



