The Life of the Bee 
provision for the winter.’ In fact it becomes 
necessary, in order to stimulate her activity, 
to deprive her systematically of the fruits of 
her labour. 
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So much for what our own eyes can see. 
It will be admitted that we have mentioned 
some curious facts, which by no means 
support the theory that every intelligence 
is arrested, every future clearly defined, 
save only the intelligence and future of 
man. 
But if we choose to accept for one moment 
the hypothesis of evolution, the spectacle 
widens, and its uncertain, grandiose light 
soon attains our own destinies. Whoever 
brings careful attention to bear will scarcely 
deny, even though it be not evident, the 
presence in nature of a will that tends to 
raise a portion of matter to a subtler and 
perhaps better condition, to penetrate its 
1 Biichner cites an analogous fact. In the Barbadoes, 
the bees whose hives are in the midst of the refineries, 
where they find sugar in abundance during the whole 
year, will entirely abandon their visits to the flowers. 
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