The Progress of the Race 
ments of the microscope, of the ento- 
mologist’s laboratory, revealed the precise 
secret of the principal organs of the 
workers, of the mother, and the males. 
Need we wonder if our knowledge be 
as scanty as our experience? The bees 
have existed many thousands of years; 
we have watched them for ten or twelve 
lustres. And if it could even be proved 
that no change has occurred in the hive 
since we first opened it, should we have 
the right to conclude that nothing had 
changed before our first questioning 
glance? Do we not know that in the 
evolution of species a century is but as a 
drop of rain that is caught in the whirl 
of the river, and that millenaries glide as 
swiftly over the life of universal matter 
as single years over the history of a 
people? 
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