From the crowd, from the city, she derives an invisible aliment that is as necessary to her as honey. This craving will help to explain the spirit of the laws of the hive.

For in them the individual is nothing, her existence conditional only, and herself, for one indifferent moment, a winged organ of the race.

Her whole life is an entire sacrifice to the manifold, everlasting being whereof she forms part.

Maeterlinck, Maurice: The Life of The Bee (1914)

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