INTELLIGENCE OF WASPS 



WASPS possess an intellect that is 

 an honour to them, in-so-much- 

 as it is doubtless a development resulting 

 from their own efforts to accomplish re- 

 sults they were capable of conceiving and 

 of desiring to accomplish. 



They know a great deal as a result of 

 what might be called ancestral memory, a 

 memory of deeds their ancestors performed 

 so often that in time such deeds became 

 perfect and automatic; and this memory 

 we are accustomed to entitle instinct. 



The mind of the wasp still remains 

 active, the insect not wholly relying upon 

 its ancestral memory for present emergen- 

 cies. It can still observe, remember, and 

 reason. 



Wasps reason well, but they do not 

 argue at all, though where humankind is 



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