The Life of the Bee 
left to ourselves, to our own resources. 
It is to our humblest efforts that every 
useful, enduring achievement of this earth 
is due. It is open to us, if we choose, to 
await the better or worse that may follow 
some alien accident, but on condition that 
such expectation shall not hinder our 
human task. Here again do the bees, 
as Nature always, provide a most excel- 
lent lesson. In the hive there has truly 
been prodigious intervention. The bees 
are in the hands of a power capable of 
annihilating. or modifying their race, of 
transforming their destinies; the bees’ 
thraldom is far more definite than our 
own. Therefore none the less do they 
perform their profound and primitive 
duty. And, among them, it is precisely 
those whose obedience to duty is most 
complete who are able most fully to 
profit by the supernatural intervention 
that to-day has raised the destiny of their 
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