THE SWARM 



place under the microscope, as Dujardin, 

 Brandt, Girard, \'ogel, and other entomol- 

 ogists have done, the little uncouth and 

 careworn head of the virgin worker side 

 by side with the somewhat empt}' skull 

 of the queen and the male's magnificent 

 cranium, glistening with its twenty-six 

 thousand eyes. Within this tiny head we 

 should find the workings of the vastest 

 and most magnitlcent brain of the hive: 

 the most beautiful and complex, and the 

 most perfect, that, in another order and 

 with a different organisation, is to be found 

 in nature after that of man. Here again, 

 as in ever}- quarter where the scheme 

 of the world is known to us, there where 

 the brain is, are authority and victor.', 

 veritable strength and wisdom. And 



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