The Foundation of the City 
shows far greater skill in extricating itself 
from a difficulty, and in finding its way. 
This conclusion, however, would not seem 
altogether flawless. Turn the, transparent 
sphere twenty times, if you will, holding 
now the base, now the neck, to the window, 
and you will find that the bees will turn 
twenty times with it, so as always to face 
the light. It is their love of the light, 
their very intelligence, that is their un- 
doing in this experiment of the English 
savant. They evidently imagine that the 
issue from every prison must be there 
where the light shines clearest ; and they 
act in accordance, and persist in too logical 
action. To them glass is a supernatural 
mystery they never have met with in nature; 
they have had no experience of this suddenly 
impenetrable atmosphere ; and, the greater 
their intelligence, the more inadmissible, 
more incomprehensible, will the strange 
obstacle appear. Whereas the feather- 
brained flies, careless of logic as of the 
enigma of crystal, disregarding the call of 
the light, flutter wildly hither and thither, 
and, meeting here the good fortune 
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