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to be adopted through concerted action — of which, how- 

 ever, only the part requiring his own co-operation is pre- 

 sent in the consciousness of each. Thus, for example, the 

 larva of the bee itself spins the silky chamber in which it 

 is to become a chrysalis, but other bees must close it with 

 its lid of wax. The purpose of there being a chamber in 

 which the larva can become a chrj^salis must be present 

 in the minds of each of these two parties to the transaction, 

 but neither of them acts under the influence of conscious 

 will, except in regard to his own particular department. 

 I have already mentioned the fact that the larva, after its 

 metamorphosis, must be freed from its cell by other bees, 

 and have told how the working-bees in autumn kill the 

 drones, so that they may not have to feed a number of 

 useless mouths throughout the winter, and how they only 

 spare them when they are wanted in order to fecundate a 

 new queen. Furthermore, the working-bees build cells in 

 which the eggs laid by the queen may come to maturity, 

 and, as a general rule, make just as many chambers as 

 the queen laj^s eggs ; they make these, moreover, in the 

 same order as that in which the queen lays her eggs, 

 namely, first for the working-bees, then for the drones, 

 and lastly for the queens. In the polity of the bees, the 

 working and the sexual capacities, which were once united, 

 are now personified in three distinct kinds of individual, 

 and these combine with an inner, unconscious, spiritual 

 union, so as to form a single body politic, as the organs of 

 a living body combine to form the body itself. 



In this chapter, therefore, we have arrived at the fol- 

 lowing conclusions : — 



Instinct is not the result of conscious deliberation ;^ 



1 " Der Instinct ist nicht Resultat bewusster Ueberlegung, nicht 

 Folge der korperlichen Organisation, nicht blosses Resultat eines in 

 der Organisation des Gehirns gelegenen Mechanismiis, nicht Wirkung 

 eines dem Geiste von aussen angekk'bten todten, seineni innersten 

 Wesen fremden Mechanismus, sondern selbsteigene Leistung des 

 Individuum aus seinem innersten Wesen und Character ent- 

 springend." — Philosophy of the Unconscious, 3d ed., p. 100. 



