The Life of the Bee 
in its turn, adhering to the skin of the egg, 
or adding itself, in the sugary liquid, to the 
number of the drowned. 
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This case, though rarely to be followed 
so closely, is not unique in natural history. 
We have here, laid bare before us, the struggle 
between the conscious will of the triongulin, 
that seeks to live, and the obscure and 
general will of nature, that not only desires 
that the triongulin should live, but is 
anxious even that its life should be im- 
proved and fortified to a degree beyond 
that to which its own will impels it. But 
through some strange inadvertence the ame- 
lioration nature imposes suppresses the life 
of even the fittest, and the Sisaris colletes 
would have long since disappeared had not 
chance, acting in opposition to the desires 
of nature, permitted isolated individuals to 
escape from the excellent and far-seeing 
law which ordains on all sides the triumph 
of the stronger. 
Can this mighty pone err, then, that 
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