The Life of the Bee 
in the sphere of man — interventions that 
may be more hidden, but not the less 
fraught with danger? And in the case 
before us, which is right, in the end, — the 
insect, or nature? What would happen 
if the bees, more docile perhaps, or 
endowed with a higher intelligence, were 
too clearly to understand the desires of 
nature, and to follow them to the extreme; 
to multiply males to infinity, seeing that 
nature is imperiously calling for males? 
Would they not risk the destruction of 
their species? Are we to believe that 
there are intentions in nature that it is 
dangerous to understand too clearly, fatal 
to follow with too much ardour; and that 
it is one of her desires that we should not 
divine, and follow, all her desires? Is it 
not possible that herein there may lie one 
of the perils of the human race? We too 
are aware of unconscious forces within us, 
that would appear to demand the reverse 
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