The Swarm 
to that which already is seen? Where 
the anonymous prudence that selects and 
abandons, raises and lowers; that of so 
many workers makes so many queens, 
and of so many mothers can make a 
people of virgins? We have said else- 
where that it lodged in the “Spirit of 
the Hive,” but where shall this spirit 
of the hive be looked for if not in the 
assembly of workers? To be convinced 
of its residence there, we need not per- 
haps have studied so closely the habits 
of this royal republic. It was enough 
to place under the microscope, as Dujar- 
din, Brandt, Girard, Vogel, and other 
entomologists have done, the little un- 
couth and careworn head of: the virgin 
worker side by side with the somewhat 
empty skull of the queen and the male’s 
magnificent cranium, glistening with its 
twenty-six thousand eyes. Within this 
tiny head we should find the workings 
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