The Progress of the Race 
renounce natural swarming and devote all 
their activity to the collection of honey 
and pollen. 
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But for the other faults: might not an 
intelligence that possessed a clearer con- 
sciousness of the aim of common life eman- 
cipate itself from them? Much might be 
said concerning these faults, which emanate 
now from what is unknown to us in the 
hive, now from swarming and its resultant 
errors, for which we are partly to blame. 
But let every man judge for himself, and, 
having seen what has gone before, let him 
grant or deny intelligence to the bees, as he 
may think proper. I am not eager to de- 
fend them. It seems to me that in many 
circumstances they give proof of under- 
standing, but my curiosity would not be 
less were all that they do done blindly. It 
is interesting to watch a brain possessed of 
extraordinary resources within itself where- 
with it may combat cold and hunger, death, 
time, space and solitude, all the enemies of 
matter that springs to life; but should a 
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