The Progress of the Race 
harmoniously joined to the rest, vast surfaces 
that are unstable and will need support. 
The enterprise is hopeful, but full of hard- 
ship and danger. It would seem to have 
been conceived by some sovereign intelligence 
that was able to divine most of our desires, 
but has executed them clumsily, hampered 
by its very vastness. We must disentangle, 
therefore, what now is obscure; we must 
develop the least intentions of the super- 
natural donor; we must build in a few days 
what would ordinarily take us years; we 
must renounce organic habits and funda- 
mentally alter our methods of labour. It is 
certain that all the attention man could 
devote would not be excessive for the solu- 
tion of the problems that would arise, or for 
the turning to fullest account the help thus 
offered by a magnificent providence. Yet 
that is more or less what the bees are doing 
in our modern hives.' 
1 As we are now concerned with the constructions of 
the bee, we may note, in passing, a strange peculiarity 
of the Agzs florea. Certain walls of its cells for males 
are cylindrical instead of hexagonal. Apparently it 
has not yet succeeded in passing from one form to the 
other, and in definitely adopting the better. 
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