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Why do thev thus renounce sleep, the 

 delights of honey and love, and the 

 exquisite leisure enjoyed, for instance, 

 by their winged brother, the butterfly? 

 Why will they not live as he lives ? It 

 is not hunger that urges them on. Tv;o 

 or three flov/ers sumce for their nourish- 

 ment, and in one hour they v.ill visit 

 tvv-o or three hundred, to collect a treas- 

 ure whose sv/eetness they never will taste. 

 Why all this toil and distress, and 

 whence comes this mighty assurance? Is 

 it so certain, then, that the nev.- genera- 

 tion v.-hereunto }'0u offer your lives v/ill 

 merit the sacrirfce ; v.dll be more beauti- 

 ful, happier, v.dll do something you have 

 not done r Your aim is clear to us, 

 clearer far than our ov/n ; you desire to 



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