THE SWARM 



that has planted it in them. Wherever it 

 lodg'e, in the vast unknov/able body or 

 in the tiny ones that we see, it merits 

 our deepest attention : nor may it be 

 out of place here to obsen.'e that it is 

 the habit v/e have of subordinating our 

 wonder to accidents of origin or place, 

 that so often causes us to lose the chance 

 of deep admiration : v/hich of all things in 

 the world is the most helpful to us. 



These conjectures may pernaps be re- 

 garded as exceedingly venturesome, and 

 possibly also as unduly human. It may 

 be urged that the bees, in all probability, 

 have no idea of the kind : that their care 

 for the future, love of the race, and m.anv 



