The Tragedy of Labor

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Excerpt from The Tragedy of Labor: A Monograph in Folk PhilosophyTakes one bee about one hundred trips, of, say, two miles each, to fill with honey one cell one inch long. It takes two hundred of these cells, well filled, to put in good shape my buttered cakes for breakfast. I gulp down at one meal the product of forty thousand miles of journeyings among the ¿owers. For my one breakfast many bees have worn out their wings, and have ceased at once to work and live. I am the extravagant yokefellow Of that ancient epicure king who had his meat service made of the tongues of tropical song birds.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.