On the Threshold of the Hive 
patient collaboration, wherein the one 
who saw only with immaterial light 
guided with his spirit the eyes and hands 
of the other who had the real earthly 
vision ; where he who, as we are assured, 
had never with his own eyes beheld a 
comb of honey, was yet able, notwith- 
standing the veil on his dead eyes that 
rendered double the veil in which nature 
enwraps all things, to penetrate the pro- 
found secrets of the genius that had made 
this invisible comb; as though to teach 
us that-no condition in life can warrant 
our abandoning our desire and search for 
the truth. I will not enumerate all that 
apiarian science owes to Huber; to state 
what it does not owe were the briefer 
task. His “‘ New Observations on Bees,” 
of which the first volume was written in 
1789, in the form of letters to Charles 
Bonnet, the second not appearing till 
twenty years later, have remained the 
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