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would be to take note of some facts that 

 seem ven.' surprising' ; and from these 



facts to deduce conclusions probably 

 no less erroneous, no less uncertain, 

 than those that -.ve choose to form 

 concerning' the bee. 



This much at least is certain ; our 

 "little black specks'" v/ould not reveal 

 the vast moral direction, the wonderf-jl 

 unity, that are so apparent in the hive. 

 " Whither do they tend, and v/hat is it 

 they do r '' he v/ould ask, after years and 

 centuries of patient v.-atchin^. '" What is 

 the aim of their life, or its pivot r Do 

 they obey som.e God- I can see nothing 

 that governs their actions. The lirde 

 things that one day they appear to collect 

 and build up, the next they destroy and 



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