The Foundation of the City 
who is forever disturbing the most con- 
stant laws, and producing grandiose, inex- 
plicable phenomena. In the natural order 
of things, in the monotonous life of the 
forest, the madness Langstroth describes 
would be possible only were some accident 
suddenly to destroy a hive full of honey. 
But in this case, even, there would be no 
fatal glass, no boiling sugar or cloying 
syrup; no death or danger, therefore, 
other than that to which every animal is 
exposed while seeking its prey. 
Should we be more: successful than 
they in preserving our presence of mind 
if some strange power were at every step 
to ensnare our reason? Let us not be 
too hasty in condemning the bees for the 
folly whereof we are the authors, or in de- 
riding their intellect, which is as poorly 
equipped to foil our artifices as our own 
would be to foil those of some superior 
creature unknown to us to-day, but on 
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