The Life of the Bee 
[99] 
But there is no warrant for the state- 
ment that the habits of the bees are un- 
changed. If we examine them with an 
unbiassed eye, and without emerging 
from the small area lit by our actual ex- 
perience, we shall, on the contrary, dis- 
cover marked variations. And who shall 
tell how many escape us? Were an ob- 
server of a hundred and fifty times our 
height and about seven hundred and fifty 
thousand times our importance (these 
being the relations of stature and weight 
in which we stand to the humble honey- 
fly), one who knew not our language, and 
was endowed with senses totally different 
from our own; were such an one to have 
been studying us, he would recognise 
certain curious material transformations 
in the course of the last two thirds of 
the century, but would be totally un- 
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