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THE S\VARA\ 



It comes TO pass with the bees .is with 

 most of the thing's in this world ; we re- 

 mark some few of their h.ibits ; we sav 

 the\' do this, they work in such and 

 such fashion, their queens are born tlius, 

 tiieir workers are virgin, the_\' swarm at a 

 ertain time. And then we imagine we 

 know them, and ask nothing more. We 

 wareh them hasten from tlower to tloN\'er, 

 \s-e see t!ie constant agitation within the 

 hi\'e ; their life seems very simple to 

 us. and bounded, like e\-ery life, by 

 the instinctive cares of reproduction and 

 nourishment. But let the e>-e draw near, 

 and endeavour to see ; and at once 

 the least phenomenon of all becomes 

 o\'erpoweringly complex; \\-e are con- 

 fronted by the enigma of intellect, of 

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