THE SWARM 



They have the appearance of understand- 

 ing each other, and of working for a 

 common aim; and the observer, therefore, 

 is apt to endow them with reasons and 

 intellect that the\- trul\- are far from pos- 

 sessing. He will pretend to account for 

 each action, show a reason behind every 

 mo\'ement: and from thence the gradation 

 is easy to proclaiming them marvels, or 

 monsters, of innumerable ideas. Whereas 

 fije truth Is that these ten thousand in- 

 di^^duals, that have been produced sim- 

 ultaneoiKly, that have lived together, and 

 undergone ^netamorphoas at more or less 

 |be same ^ime, cannot fail all to do the 

 same thing, and are compelled, however 

 slight the sentiment i^nthin them, to 

 «loj^ common habits, to IWs in accord 

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