The Life of the Bee 
rest? They give their love to what lies 
ahead of them; we bestow ours on what is 
around. And we who love here, perhaps, 
have no love left for what is beyond. 
Nothing varies so much as the direction 
of pity or charity. We ourselves should 
formerly have been far less shocked than 
we ate to-day at the insensibility of the 
bees; and to many an ancient people such 
conduct would not have seemed blame- 
worthy. And further, can we tell how 
many of the things that we do would 
shock a being who might be watching 
us as we watch the bees? 
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