The Foundation of the City 
movements are followed so eagerly by all 
the crowd, that we almost might fancy 
that some illustrious engineer had been 
summoned to trace in the void the site 
of the first cell of all, from which 
every other must mathematically depend. 
This bee belongs to the sculptor or carver 
class of workers; she produces no wax 
herself, and is content to deal with the 
materials others provide. She locates the 
first cell, scoops into the block for an 
instant, lays the wax she has removed from 
the cavity on the borders around it; and 
then, like the foundresses, abruptly departs 
and abandons her model. Her place is 
taken at once by an impatient worker, who 
continues the task that a third will finish, 
while others close by are attacking the rest 
of the surface and the opposite side of the 
wall; each one obeying the general law of 
interrupted and successive labour, as though 
it were an inherent principle of the hive 
that the pride of toil should be distributed 
and every achievement be anonymous and 
common to all, that it might thereby become 
more fraternal. 
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