Excerpt from Spiritual Honey From Natural Hives: Or Meditations and Observations on the Natural History and Habits of BeesSuch, my readers, are the causes which brought this interesting work before your notice: pardon me if I extract from my other preface the reasons which induced me to appear before the world at all, and if I should prove a help to the mere naturalist to lead him to his God or a guide to the Christian to point him to a new source whence he may draw materials for contemplation, my volumes will not be waste paper, nor my aim prove to have been wrongly directed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.