The Life of the Bee 
have formed, or of the intelligent fluid that 
issues therefrom and spreads over the uni- 
verse, perishing when our life ceases or 
persisting after our death. As they go 
from flower to flower collecting more honey 
than themselves and their offspring can need, 
let us go from reality to reality seeking 
food for the incomprehensible flame, and, 
certain of having fulfilled our organic duty, 
prepare ourselves thus for whatever be- 
fall. Let us nourish this flame on our 
feelings and passions, on all that we see and 
think, that we hear and touch,-on its own 
essence, which is the idea it derives from 
the discoveries, experience, and observation 
that result from its every movement. A 
time will then come when all things will 
turn so naturally to good in a spirit that 
has given itself to the loyal desire of this 
simple, human duty, that the very suspicion 
of the possible aimlessness of its exhausting 
effort will only render the duty the clearer ; 
will only add more purity, power, disin- 
terestedness, and freedom to the ardour 
with which it still seeks. 
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