THE SWARM 



continue to forage abroad, to guard the 

 accumulated treasure, and preser\-e the 

 moral traditions of the hive. For each 

 hive has its own code of morals. There 

 are some that are very virtuous and some 

 that are very pen.-erse ; and a careless 

 bee-keeper v;ill 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 discovery 

 that work among distant flowers, v;hereof 

 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 

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