The Life of the Bee 
volume. I will merely outline a chapter of 
it, less than a chapter, a page, which shall 
show how the hesitating endeavours of the 
will to live and be happier result in the 
birth, development, and affirmation of social 
intelligence. 
We have seen the unfortunate Prosopis 
silently bearing her solitary little destiny in 
the midst of this vast universe charged with 
terrible forces. A certain number of her 
sisters, belonging to species already more 
skilful and better supplied with utensils, 
such as the well-clad Colletes, or the mar- 
vellous cutter of rose-leaves, the Megachile 
centuncularis, live in an isolation no less 
profound ; and if by chance some creature 
attach itself to them and share their dwell- 
ing, it will either be an enemy, or, more 
often, a parasite. For the world of bees is 
peopled with phantoms stranger than our 
own; and many a species will thus have a 
kind of mysterious and inactive double, 
exactly similar to the victim it has selected, 
save only that its immemorial idleness 
has caused it to lose one by one its imple- 
ments of labour, and that it exists solely 
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