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subtler, if an intelligence of an order en- 

 tirely different from our own, and ser/ed 

 by a body so colossal that its movemenrs 

 were almost as imiperceptible as those or 

 a natural phenomenon, v/ere to divert it- 

 self by laying traps of this kind for usr 

 Has it not taken us thousands of \-ears 

 to invent a sufficiently plausible explana- 

 tion for the thunderbolt? There is a 

 certain feebleness that overv/helms e\"er." 

 intellect the moment it emerges from its 

 own sphere, and is brought face to face 

 with events not of its own initiation. 

 And, besides, it is quite possible that if 

 this ordeal of the trellis v,-ere to obtain 

 more regularly and generally among the 

 bees, they would end by detecting the 

 pitfall, and by taking steps to elude it, 



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