The Foundation of the City 
table, or impregnated with evil odours. 
And even then the bees will not be dis- 
heartened or bewildered; even then they 
will not abandon their mission. The 
swarm will simply forsake the inhospi- 
table abode, to seek better fortune some 
little distance away. And similarly it can 
never be said of them that they can be 
induced to undertake any ‘illogical or 
foolish task. Their common-sense has 
never been known to fail them; they 
have never, at a loss for definite decision, 
erected at haphazard structures of a wild or 
heterogeneous nature. Though you place 
the swarm in a sphere, a cube, or a pyra- 
mid, in an oval or polygonal basket, you 
will find, on visiting the bees a few days 
later, that if this strange assembly of little 
independent intellects has accepted the new 
abode, they will at once, and unhesitatingly 
and unanimously have known how to select 
the most favourable, often humanly speak- 
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