The Swarm 
vention must present itself to them. It 
may be said, perhaps, that in the last 
instance we have given, they place a very 
false construction upon the queen’s ina- 
bility to follow them. But would our 
powers of discernment be so very much 
subtler, if an intelligence of an order 
entirely different from our own, and 
served by a body so colossal that its 
movements were almost as imperceptible 
as those of a natural phenomenon, were 
to divert itself by laying traps of this 
kind for us? Has it not taken us thou- 
sands of years to invent a sufficiently 
plausible explanation for the thunderbolt? 
There is a certain feebleness that over- 
whelms every intellect the moment it 
emerges from its own sphere, and is 
brought face to face with events not of 
its own initiation. And, besides, it is 
quite possible that if this ordeal of the 
trellis were to obtain more regularly and 
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