The Life of the Bee 
two orders in cases, only too frequent in 
life, where we suffer our conduct to be in- 
ferior ta our thoughts, where, seeing the 
good, we follow the worse— to see the 
worse and follow the better, to raise our 
actions high over our idea, must ever be 
reasonable and salutary; for human ex- 
perience renders it daily more clear that 
the highest thought we can attain will long 
be inferior still to the mysterious truth we 
seek. Moreover, should nothing of what 
goes before be true, a reason more simple 
and more familiar would counsel him not 
yet to abandon his human ideal. For the 
more strength he accords to the laws which 
would seem to set egoism, injustice, and 
cruelty as examples for men to follow, the 
more strength does he at the same time 
confer on the others that ordain generosity, 
‘justice, and pity; and these last laws are 
found to contain something as profoundly 
natural as the first, the moment he begins 
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