AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



bee born into the hive who revolts 

 against the monotony and fatalism and 

 hopelessness of usual bee life. Like other 

 books with heroines it has a happy end 

 ing, but it wouldn t if it were a scientific 

 text-book. 



Compared with the bees and all the 

 other animal kinds whose fate as species 

 depends on external circumstances and 

 inexorable natural law and whose evolu 

 tionary progress is dependent on occa 

 sional fortuitous germinal variations pro 

 ducing small somatic changes of selective 

 advantage, what an opportunity man has 

 to determine, within limits, the course and 

 even the rapidity of his own evolution. 

 But also what a responsibility! 



Here is where the biologist becomes the 

 preacher and exhorter. Here is where 

 biology and the appeal to reason, where 

 technical knowledge and common sense, 

 where science and religion join. The 

 soundest of science leads us to the con 

 clusion that man, by virtue of the pos 

 session of a social inheritance, as con- 

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