The Life of the Bee 
in equal perfection the science of the 
chemist, the geometrician, the architect, 
and the engineer ; but on the sarcophagi, 
on Egyptian stones and papyri, we find 
drawings of combs that are identical in 
every particular. Name a single fact that 
will show the least progress, a single in- 
stance of their having contrived some 
new feature or modified their habitual 
routine, and we will cheerfully yield, and 
admit that they not only possess an ad- 
mirable instinct, but have also an intellect 
worthy to approach that of man, worthy 
to share in one knows not what higher 
destiny than awaits unconscious and sub- 
missive matter. 
This language is not even confined to 
the profane; it is made use of by ento- 
mologists of the rank of Kirby and 
Spence, in order to deny the bees the 
possession of intellect other than may 
vaguely stir within the narrow prison of 
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