THE SWA R M 



Is it not strange that the hive, which 

 we vaguely sur\'ey from the hei^'ht of 

 another world, should provide our t'rst 

 questioning g-Jance with so sure and pro- 

 found a reply? Must v;e not admire the 

 manner in which the thought or the god 

 that the bees obey is at once revealed by 

 their editlces, v/rought v.ith such striking 

 conviction, \:y their customs and laws, 

 their political and economical organisation, 

 their \-inues, and even their cruelties? 

 Nor is this god, though it be perhaps the 

 only one to which man has as \'et never 

 Ottered serious v^-orship, by any means the 

 least reasonable or the least legitimate that 

 we can conceive. The god of the bees 

 is the future. When v.-e, in our study of 

 human history, endeavour to gauge the 

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