The Nuptial Flight 
not yet to abandon his human ideal. For 
the more strength he accords to the laws 
which would seem to set egoism, injustice, 
and cruelty as examples for men to follow, 
the more strength does he at the same time 
confer on the others that ordain generosity, 
justice, and pity; and these last laws are found 
to contain something as profoundly natural 
as the first the moment he begins to equalise, 
or allot more methodically, the share he 
attributes to the universe and to himself. 
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Let us return to the tragic nuptials of 
the queen. Here it is evidently Nature’s 
wish, in the interests of crossed fertilisation, 
that the union of the drone and the queen- 
bee should be possible only in the open sky. 
But her desires blend network-fashion, and 
her most valued laws have to pass through 
the meshes of other laws, which, in their 
turn, the moment after, are compelled to 
pass through the first. 
In the sky she has planted so many 
dangers—cold winds, storm-currents, birds, 
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