1907.] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 131 



REASON, AS OF BEES AND MEN. which excite the actions are also iden- 

 tical and are performed through the 

 c. w. DAYTON. same method of reasoning. 



^ ,,r^TTT TA 1 I J T*^ determine or contemplate the 



IT WOULD not be the good part consciousness of bees in comb-build- 

 of wisdom to thmk that because j^g jg equivalent to exercising con- 

 the question as to whether bees sciousness for them, or in their stead, 

 think or reason has been examined Men do not build combs. Man can- 

 and discussed by a few leading apiar- ^^^ exercise consciousness in actions 

 ists that the matter is decided and set- ^g ^.^uj^ ^^^ perform himself. Man 

 tied. The foremost philosophers of ^^^ ^^ conscious as to when or where 

 our day admit, after a generation of ^^n desires combs to be built but the 

 discussion, that the matter has been ^^^^, consciousness may be at vari- 

 advanced no farther than suppositions ance; and the consciousness of the 

 or hypotheses as to whether man him- ^^^^ be in accord with nature, 



self has reason. The only approach Self-consciousness is not transferable, 

 to satisfactory settlement is that man ^^^ept by a change brought about by 

 possesses self-consciousness or, intel- artificial actions and then it is not 

 lectual consciousness of self There consciousness. It is a faulty course 

 are many high authorities that hold ^^ procedure that may admit of tol- 

 that the self-consciousness of man is oration but not of actuation. Below 

 the same kind as in the lower am- ^^^ ^^^^ examples I deem as appli- 

 mals differing- only in degree, ihere ^^\y\^ in the case 



have been innumerable arguments q,^ p^gg 241 of the November issue 

 brought up but when examined from j mentioned having some nuclei in the 

 different points of view have always ^^^^^^ ^^ introduce queens by the 

 been knocked topsy turvy. The field hatching-brood plan. It was so cold 

 in which to win fame m this branch ^.g^ther that some unsealed brood in 

 of the philosophical world is, there- ^.j^^ ^^^ ^^^^g ^^ ^.^^ com'bs became 

 fore, as broad as ever. chilled. Hold this fact for use later. _ 



Nor need importations from Ger- Case No. i. — There are many Mexi- 

 many or other favored climes deter us can hornets here. There was a dish 

 from making a local effort. German of honey on the table which the hor- 

 people freely admit that merchandise nets found. They find such things 

 sent here and sold at fancy prices sooner than honey bees. After the 

 would be scorned to be used at all hornets had helped themselves for 

 back in Germany. We know, all too tvvo or three days (four hornets) I 

 well, that articles made to be sold are get the dish outside to be cleaned off 

 never so perfect as when intended for by bees. When the bees had gotten 

 home consumption. Even our bees ^ good start I set the dish back in its 

 which were obtained fifty years ago former place and the hornets and six 

 and that we confidently expected to or seven bees continued to carry the 

 improve and develop are still being honey away comiiig in at the door 

 imported from the same locality as and going out at the window escape, 

 the early importations. What has dis- j noticed that every time a hornet 

 cussion developed in the matter, if it returned for a load it first went around 

 has not incited action? Beginners ^^^ smelled of every honey bee on 

 have stood still and waited, or per- ^j^^ ^jgj^ j^^fore taking a load of honey, 

 chance, risked their savings for high ^ connected these actions with other 

 heralded improvements whose com- actions I have seen out of doors about 

 motion was in the coming and the ^^^ ^^^ hives, so I daubed a bee with 

 ^°^"^- _ honey so it could not go home. The 



Man may be self-conscious of other next hornet attacked this bee and 

 animals and their acts but man can other hornets also as they came but 

 never be self-conscious for other ani- the bee fought and got free. Then 

 mals. Consequently man can only another bee was daubed, and that was 

 compare the actions which rnay be tackled by hornets the same as the 

 conscious to other animals with those other. Thoughts preceded acts. One 

 actions which are conscious to him- of the dead larvae was brought and 

 self. If the actions are identical then a small amount of its substance was 

 it can be calculated that the causes smeared on the backs of the two bees. 



