The Life of the Bee 
and automatic inclination and adhesion of 
its pollinia; as also the unerring double 
see-saw of the anthers of the wild sage, 
which touch the body of the visiting insect 
at a particular spot in order that the insect 
may, in its turn, touch the stigma of the 
neighbouring flower at another particular 
spot; watch, too, in the case of the Pedi- 
cularis Sylvatica, the successive, calcnlated 
movements of its stigma; and indeed the 
entrance of the bee into any one of these 
three flowers sets every organ vibrating, just 
as the skilful marksman who hits the black 
spot on the target will cause all the figures 
to move in the elaborate mechanisms we see 
in our village fairs. 
We might go lower still, and ea as 
Ruskin has shown in his ‘‘Ethics d the 
Dust,” the character, habits, and artifites of 
crystals; their quarrels, and mode of pro- 
cedure, when a foreign body attemp's to 
oppose their plans, which are more arcient 
by far than our imagination can conctive ; 
the manner in which they admit or repel an 
enemy, the possible victory of the waker 
over the stronger, as, for instance, when the 
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