The Life of the Bee 
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This power of appropriation may well 
be considered to overstep the limit of 
instinct ; and indeed there can be nothing 
more arbitrary than the distinction we 
draw between instinct and intelligence 
properly so-called. Sir John Lubbock, 
whose observations on ants, bees, and 
wasps are so interesting and so personal, 
is reluctant to credit the bee, from the 
moment it forsakes the routine of its 
habitual labour, with any power of discern- 
ment or reasoning. This attitude of his 
may be due in some measure to an uncon- 
scious bias in favour of the ants, whose 
ways he has more specially noted ; for the 
entomologist is always inclined to regard 
that insect as the more intelligent to which 
he has more particularly devoted himself, 
and we have to be on our guard against 
this little personal predilection. As a 
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