. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Can you not borrow ? And, in just return, Afford them shelter from the wintry winds ; Or, as the sharp year pinches, with their own Again regale them on some smiling day ? See where the stony bottom of their town Looks desolate and wild, with here and there A helpless number, who the ruln'd state Survive, lamenting, weak, cast out to ; For Thomson's humane appeal he has been thus apostrophized by Dr. Evans : " And thou, sweet Thomson, tremblingly alive To pity's call has mourned the slaughter'd hive, Cursing, with honest zeal, the cowa
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Can you not borrow ? And, in just return, Afford them shelter from the wintry winds ; Or, as the sharp year pinches, with their own Again regale them on some smiling day ? See where the stony bottom of their town Looks desolate and wild, with here and there A helpless number, who the ruln'd state Survive, lamenting, weak, cast out to ; For Thomson's humane appeal he has been thus apostrophized by Dr. Evans : " And thou, sweet Thomson, tremblingly alive To pity's call has mourned the slaughter'd hive, Cursing, with honest zeal, the coward hand Which hid in night's dark veil the murd'rous brand, In steam sulphurous wrapt the peaceful dome, And bore the yellow spoil triumphant ; Were we speaking of clams, lobsters, oysters or any of the lower orders of ani- mated existence, these remarks might be re- garded as mere sentimentalism, but the bee stands high in the scale of animal intelli- gence, and hence possesses an organism susceptible of pleasure or pain to an intense degree. Recognizing this fact, most of the great minds of the past have leit on record eloquent tributes to the bee. She has fur- nished the political economist with models of government, the architect with plans for the strongest structures with the greatest economy of materials and space. The theo- logian has drawn on her for some of his best illustrations of design in nature to demon- strate the existence of an intelligent Creator. Aristotle the high priest of ancient philoso- phy, well acquainted with the habits of all animals known in his day, pronounced the bee a "magazine of the virtues," and Virgil, Rome's most gifted poet, pronounced her a " ray of the ; Modern investigators have instituted many experiments to ascer- tain the limits of bee-wisdom, yet in all of them she has shown herself equal to the oc- casion, and by her wonderful adaptation of means to ends, in the various positions she has been
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