The Foundation of the City 
deny intelligence to the bee because it has 
not yet succeeded in distinguishing us from 
the great ape or the bear. It is certain 
that there are, in us and about us, influences 
and powers no less dissimilar whose distinc- 
tion escapes us as readily. 
And finally, to end this apology, wherein 
I seem somewhat to have fallen into the 
error I laid to Sir John Lubbock’s charge, 
does not the capacity for folly so great in 
itself argue intelligence? For thus it is 
ever in the uncertain domain of the intel- 
lect, apparently the most vacillating and 
precarious condition of matter. The same 
light that falls on the intellect falls also on 
passion, whereof none can tell whether it be 
the smoke of the flame, or the wick. In 
the case above it has not been mere animal 
desire to gorge themselves with honey that 
has urged on the bees. They could do this 
at their leisure in the store-rooms at home. 
Watch them in an analogous circumstance; 
follow them; you will see that, as soon as 
their sac is filled, they will return to the 
hive, and add their plunder to the general 
store; and visit the marvellous vintage, and 
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