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their organic structure. Man has found, that in exten- 

 sive laboratories, a division of labor is highly essential : 

 thus, in the manufacture of the pin, a single pin passes 

 through many hands before completion. 



The builder does not cause his layers of brick to bring 

 them to the place of use, nor to compound the mortar 

 in which they are laid. He finds that each branch of 

 labor, performed by persons for that especial business, best 

 tends to harmony and to a rapid completion of the edifice. 

 The bee, in this respect, is not behind man, in its know- 

 ledge of the most efiectual application of labor, since it 

 receives its wisdom from a source that knows no error. 

 Man has studied, and found this truth out by experience — 

 the bee has this instinct implanted in its censorium from 

 the day of its birth. 



When man attempts to properly define the beauty 

 and harmony of the domestic labors of the bee, and its 

 wonderful instinctive powers, he is lost in a labyrinth 

 of amazement ! 



I have, more than once, been inclined to throw down 

 my pen, overwhelmed with the magnitude of the task 

 before me ; yet I trudge along slowly, doing but faiat 

 justice to the subjecVtmsting in the charity of my 

 readers, for an exoneration of having failed to meet the 

 case as it merits. 



DIVISION OP LABOR PROVED. 



When a swarm of bees commence the fabrication -of 

 combs in a new hive, a certain number of bees com- 

 mence the building of them ; and another portion co 



