The Life of the Bee 
prudence that we at first could not grasp. 
In the little circle, even, that our eyes 
embrace we are constantly shown that 
what we regarded as nature’s blunder 
close by was due to her deeming it 
well to adjust the presumed inadvertence 
out yonder. She has placed the three 
flowers we mentioned under conditions 
of such difficulty that they are unable to 
fertilise themselves ; she considers it ben- 
eficial, therefore, for reasons beyond our 
powers of perception, that they should 
cause themselves to be fertilised by their 
neighbours; and, inasmuch as she en- 
hances the intelligence of her victims, she 
displays on our right the genius she failed 
to display on our left. The byways of 
this genius of hers remain incomprehen- 
sible to us, but its level is always the 
same. It will appear to fall into error — 
assuming that error be possible — there- 
upon rising again at once in the organ 
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