The Progress of the Race 



species. And indeed, to discover the, 

 unconquerable duty of a being is less 

 difficult than one imagines. It is ever 

 to be read in the distinguishing organs, 

 whereto the others are all subordinate. 

 And just as it is written in the tongue, 

 the stomach, and mouth of the bee that 

 it must make honey, so is it written in 

 our eyes, our ears, our nerves, our mar- 

 row, in every lobe of our head, that we 

 must make cerebral substance ; nor is there 

 need that we should divine the purpose 

 this substance shall serve. The bees know 

 not whether they will eat the honey they 

 harvest, as we know not who it is shall 

 reap the profit of the cerebral substance we 

 shall have formed, or of the intelligent fluid 

 that issues therefrom and spreads over the 

 universe, perishing when our life ceases 

 or persisting after our death. As they 

 go from flower to flower collecting more 

 honey than themselves and their offspring 

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