BEES AND FLOWERS. 237 
is composed, travelling incessantly from the sun, 
without being filled with wonder and awe at the 
marvellous activity and power displayed in the in- 
finitely small as well as in the infinitely great things 
of the universe. We cannot become familiar with the 
facts of gravitation, cohesion, or crystallization, with- 
out realizing that the laws of nature are fixed, orderly, 
and constant, and will repay us with failure or success 
according as we act ignorantly or wisely ; and thus we 
shall begin to be afraid of leading careless, useless, and 
idle lives. We cannot watch the working of the fairy 
"life" in the primrose or the bee, without learning 
that living beings as well as inanimate things are 
governed by these same laws of nature ; nor can we 
contemplate the mutual adaptation of bees and 
flowers without acknowledging that it teaches the 
truth that those succeed best in life who, whether 
consciously or unconsciously, do their best for others. 
And so our wanderings in the Fairy -land of 
Science will have given us much pleasant know- 
ledge, and taught us in many ways how to regulate 
our own lives, while they may also serve a far higher 
purpose, by showing us that the forces of nature, 
whether they are apparently mechanical, as in gravi- 
tation or heat, or intelligent, as in living beings, are 
one and all the voice of the Great Creator, and speak 
to us of His Nature and His Will. 
