The Progress of the Race 
bees are in the hands of a power capable of 
annihilating or modifying their race, of 
transforming their destinies; the bees’ thral- 
dom is far more definite than our own. 
Therefore none the less do they perform 
their profound and primitive duty. And, 
among them, it is precisely those whose 
obedience to duty is most complete who 
are able to profit most fully to-day by the 
supernatural intervention that has raised 
the destiny of their species. And, indeed, 
to discover the unconquerable duty of a 
being is less difficult than one imagines. It 
is ever to be read in the distinguishing 
organs, whereto the others are all subordi- 
nate. And just as it is written in the 
tongue, the stomach and mouth of the bee 
that it must make honey, so is it written in 
our eyes, our ears, our nerves, our marrow, 
in every lobe of our head, that we must 
make cerebral substance; nor is there need 
that we should divine the purpose this sub- 
stance shall serve. The bees know not 
whether they will eat the honey they har- 
vest, as we know not who it is shall reap 
the profit of the cerebral substance we shall 
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