THE SWAR.M 



the thousand enigmas of the waxen city: 

 and it is once more proved to us that 

 the habits and the policy of the bees are 

 b}' no means narrow, or rigidly predeter- 

 mined : and that their actions ha\ e motives 

 far more complex than we are inclined to 

 suppose 



But we are constantl\- tampering; \^^th 

 what they must regard as immovable la\\'S 

 of nature: constantly placing- the bees in 

 a position that ma>- be compared to that 

 in which we should ourselves be placed 

 were the laws of space and gravit}-. of 

 ligiht and heat, to be suddenly suppressed 

 around us. What are the bees to do 

 when we, by force or by fraud, introduce 



