The Life of the Bee 
always to face the light. It is their love of 
the light, it is their very intelligence, that 
is their undoing in this experiment of the 
English savant. They evidently imagine 
that the issue from every prison must be 
there where the light shines clearest ; and 
they act in accordance, and persist in too 
logical action. To them glass is a super- 
natural mystery they never have met 
with in nature; they have had no ex- 
perience of this suddenly impenetrable 
atmosphere; and, the greater their in- 
telligence, the more inadmissible, more 
incomprehensible, will the strange ob- 
stacle appear. Whereas the feather- 
brained flies, careless of logic as of the 
enigma of crystal, disregarding the call of 
the light, flutter wildly hither and thither, 
and, meeting here the good fortune that 
often waits on the simple, who find 
salvation there where the wiser will 
perish, necessarily end by discovering 
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