The Swarm 



has its own code of morals. There are 

 some that are very virtuous and some 

 that are very perverse; and a careless 

 bee-keeper will often corrupt his people, 

 destroy their respect for the property 

 of others, incite them to pillage, and 

 induce in them habits of conquest and 

 idleness which will render them sources 

 of danger to all the little republics around. 

 These things result from the bee's dis- 

 covery that work among distant flowers, 

 whereof many hundreds must be visited to 

 form one drop of honey, is not the only 

 or promptest method of acquiring wealth, 

 but that it is easier to enter ill-guarded 

 cities by stratagem, or force her way 

 into others too weak for self-defence. 

 Nor is it easy to restore to the paths 

 of duty a hive that has become thus 

 depraved. 



