The Swarm 
same thing, and are compelled, however 
slight the sentiment within them, to adopt 
common habits, to live in accord and 
union, to busy themselves with their dwel- 
ling, to return to it after their journeys, 
etc., etc. And on this foundation arise 
the architecture, the geometry, the order, 
the foresight, love of country, —in a word, 
the republic; all springing, as we have 
seen, from the admiration of the observer.” 
There we have our bees explained in a 
very different fashion. And if it seem 
more natural at first, is it not for the very 
simple reason that it really explains al- 
most nothing? I will not allude to the 
material errors this chapter contains; I 
will only ask whether the mere fact of the 
bees accepting a common existence, while 
doing each other the least possible harm, 
does not in itself argue a certain intelli- 
gence. And does not this intelligence 
appear the more remarkable to us as we 
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