The Life of the Bee 
at once of their plan and material. Else- 
where there are marked deviations, which 
must be corrected ; gaps to be filled and 
harmoniously joined to the rest, vast 
surfaces that are unstable and will need 
support. The enterprise is hopeful, but 
full of hardship and danger. It would 
seem to have been conceived by some 
sovereign intelligence, that was able to 
divine most of our desires, but has ex- 
ecuted them clumsily, being hampered by 
its very vastness. We must disentangle, 
therefore, what now is obscure, we must 
develop the least intentions of the super- 
natural donor; we must build in a few 
days what would ordinarily take us years ; 
we must renounce organic habits, and 
fundamentally alter our methods of labour. 
It is certain that all the attention man 
could devote would not be excessive for 
the solution of the problems that would 
arise, or for the turning to fullest account 
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