The Nuptial Flight 
to equalise, or allot more methodically, 
the share he attributes to the universe 
and to himself. 
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Let us return to the tragic nuptials of 
the queen. Here it is evidently nature’s 
wish, in the interests of crossed fertilisa- 
tion, that the union of the drone and the 
queen-bee should be possible only in the 
open sky. But her desires blend network- 
fashion, and her most valued laws have to 
pass through the meshes of other laws, 
which, in their turn, the moment after, are 
compelled to pass through the first. 
In the sky she has planted so many 
dangers — cold winds, storm-currents, 
birds, insects, drops of water, all of which 
also obey invincible laws — that she must 
of necessity arrange for this union to be 
as brief as possible. It is so, thanks to 
the startlingly sudden death of the male. 
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