The Swarm 
uncertainty and poverty. She has peopled 
it with her own substance; and all who 
move within its walls—workers, males, 
larve, nymphs, and the young princesses 
whose approaching birth will hasten her own 
departure, one of them being already de- 
signed as her successor by the “spirit of the 
hive ”—all have issued from her flanks. 
, 
:ce) 
What is this ‘‘spirit of the hive ”—where 
does it reside? It is not like the special 
instinct that teaches the bird to construct its 
well-planned nest, and then seek other skies 
when the day for migration returns. Nor is 
it a kind of mechanical habit of the race, or 
blind craving for life, that will fling the bees 
upon any wild hazard the moment an un- 
foreseen event shall derange the accustomed 
order of phenomena. On the contrary, be 
the event never so masterful, the “spirit of 
the hive” still will follow it, step by step, 
like an alert and quick-witted slave, who is 
able to derive advantage even from his 
master’s most dangerous orders. 
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