The Life of the Bee 
political scheme of the hive into most 
unexpected light by basing it upon mater- 
nity. Finally he produced woodcuts and 
engravings so perfect that to this day they 
serve to illustrate many books on apicul- 
ture. He lived in the turbulent, restless 
Amsterdam of those days, regretting 
“ Het Zoete Buiten Leve”” — The Sweet 
Life of the Country — and died, worn- 
out with work, at the age of forty-three. 
He wrote in a pious, formal style, with 
beautiful, simple outbursts of a faith that, 
fearful of falling away, ascribed all things 
to the glory of the Creator; and em- 
bodied his observations and studies in his 
great work “Bybel der Natuure,” which 
the doctor Boerhave, a century later, 
caused to be translated from the Dutch 
into Latin under the title of “ Biblia 
Nature.” (Leyden, 1737.) 
Then came Réaumur, who, pursuing 
similar methods, made a vast number of 
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