1 86 THE LIFE OF THE BEE 



has given a new name. Some of these names were clear 

 and consohng. It was found, however, that consolation and 

 clearness were alike illusory. But whether we call it God, 

 Providence, Nature, chance, life, fatality, spirit, or matter, 

 the mystery remains unaltered ; and from the experience of 

 thousands of years we have learned nothing more than to give 

 it a vaster name, one nearer to ourselves, more congruous with 

 our expectation, with the unforeseen. That is the name it bears 

 to-day, wherefore it has never seemed greater. Here we have 

 one of the numberless aspects of the third semblance, which also 

 is truth." 



