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a single year without the Instinct of making slaves 

 and what would their slaves be worth if they had 

 not the Instinct to do the work ? And yet they 

 are always fresh importations and, being neuters, 

 have no power to reproduce their kind and trans- 

 mit the habit of being a slave, as an Instinct. 



Darwin has acknowledged all these facts in his 

 work on the origin of species."^ With his accus- 

 tomed thoroughness, he set himself to verify the 

 statements of other Entomologists by his own ob- 

 servations. After satisfying himself of the facts, he 

 goes resolutely at work to make this state of things 

 appear consistent with his theory ; though he con- 

 fesses that at first it seemed fatal to it. After a 

 careful examination of his arguments to show that 

 all these differences might have been secured by Nat- 

 ural Selection, we are compelled to say that not only 

 does he seem to fail in fairly meeting the objections 

 that he himself acknowledges to lie against his 

 theory, in these phenomena of social insects, but 

 many more objections and more perplexing, must 

 arise in the mind of every naturalist who has so far 

 studied the facts in the case, as to be able to fairly 

 bring them to the test of Mr. Darwin's theory ; or 

 rather to test the theory by them. 



Mr. Darwin thinks the wonderful Instinct of the 

 Honey-bee, by which it builds cells that he ac- 

 knowledges could not be improved upon, might be 

 accounted for in this way.f The making of wax 

 takes a great deal of honey ; and so it would come 



* " Origin of Species," 5tli Am. Ed., pp. 325-332. 

 \ Ibid., pp. 333, 324. 



