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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Humanity to Honey Bees; Or Practical Directions: For the Management of Honey Bees, Upon an Improved and Humane Plan, by Which the Lives of Bees May Be Preserved, and Abundance of Honey of a Superior Quality Obtained
Bee for the ejection of its poison. So high did the ancients carry their admiration of this tiny portion of animated nature, that one philosopher, it is said, made it the sole oh ject of his study for nearly three-score years another retired to the woods,_and devoted to its contemplation the whole of his life; while the great Latin poet, stating, and proo bably adopting, a prevalent opinion, speaks of the Bee as having received a direct ema nation from the Divine Intelligence. After all this study, however, these enthusiastic admirers have thrown but little light on the real nature of this extraordinary insect; and while they have handed down to us many judicious precepts for its practical treatment, their disquisitions on its natural history can now only excite a smile. The chief cause of this failure may be fairly ascribed, per haps, to the want of those facilities for disco very, which modern science has afforded, and by which the most hidden mysteries of Bee economy are rendered clear and palpable.
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