The Swarm 
majority of animals; that they display far 
less docility, attachment, or sentiment; that 
they have, in a word, less qualities that 
relate to our own; and from that we may 
conclude that their apparent intelligence de- 
rives only from their assembled multitude ; 
nor does this union even argue intelligence, 
for it is governed by no moral considera- 
tions, it being without their consent that 
they find themselves gathered together. 
This society, therefore, is no more than a 
physical assemblage ordained by nature, and 
independent either of knowledge, or reason, 
or aim. The mother-bee produces ten 
thousand individuals at a time, and in the 
same place; these ten thousand individuals, 
were they a thousand times stupider than I 
suppose them to be, would be compelled, 
for the mere purpose of existence, to con- 
trive some form of arrangement; and, 
assuming that they had begun by injuring 
each other, they would, as each one pos- 
sesses the same strength as its fellow, soon 
have ended by doing each other the least 
possible harm, or, in other words, by render- 
ing assistance. ase have the appearance 
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