138 THE HONEY-BEE. 



Unwholesome food, defective ventilation, the diffusion 

 of poisonous germs, produce, among both orders of 

 beings, similar disastrous effects ; and this sketch of 

 the diseases of one class of domesticated insects may 

 serve to point a moral for the guidance of mankind 

 in social economy. The same inexorable laws of 

 health and sickness prevail in the highest and the 

 inferior orders of animal existences, and with unvary- 

 ing steadfastness is proclaimed the solemn warning 

 " Be not deceived : God is not mocked. Whatsoever 

 a man soweth that shall he also reap." 



