The Progress of the Race 
emancipate itself from them? Much 
might be said concerning these faults, 
which emanate now from what is unknown 
to us in the hive, now from swarming and 
its resultant errors, for which we are 
partly to blame. But let every man 
judge for himself, and, having seen what 
has gone before, let him grant or deny 
intelligence to the bees, as he may think 
proper. I am not eager to defend them. 
It seems to me that in many circum- 
stances they give proof of understanding, 
but my curiosity would not be less were 
all that they do done blindly. It is 
interesting to watch a brain possessed 
of extraordinary resources within itself 
wherewith it may combat cold and 
hunger, death, time, space, and solitude, 
all the enemies of matter that is springing 
to life; but should a creature succeed in 
maintaining its little profound and com- 
plicated existence without overstepping 
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