Monday, January 23, 2017

Who Knows?

Mankind is proud of the bee-like ingenuity and accuracy with which it pursues many of its activities; but we cannot be sure that the main result of our labor is not something as remote and unsuspected by ourselves as its service to the spring flowers is by the bee.  We do not always foresee the reactions of our most careful enterprises; and, while the bee working among the spring blossoms may recommend us modesty, the wind which has its own more indiscriminate but none the less effective system of fertilization, calls us to hope.

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