72 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



kinds breed from those males and females which 

 happen to come together. The males fight each other 

 for the privilege, and the selection of the female, is 

 made by the conqueror. This generally insures vigor- 

 ous offspring, most capable of surviving, in the struggle 

 for existence. This is the perpetuation of the strong, 

 and not the weak. Should any of the offspring prove to 

 be weak, and unadapted for the rigorous requirements 

 of a natural environment, they are unfit, and die. That 

 is, nature selects the adapted to survive, and allows the 

 weak, and unadapted to die. This is natural selection 

 in the survival of the fittest. 



BEES. In the procreation of bees another method 

 of selection is adopted. The drones of the hive are the 

 males. The queen bee alone is the productive mother. 

 The drones do not fight for her favor. She does the 

 selecting of the father of the future hive. This is her 

 method. When her time arrives she informs all the 

 males, and starts her flight straight into the upper air. 

 Her capacity for flight is much greater than any of the 

 males. They all follow her, and one at a time, accord- 

 ing to their lack of endurance, fall out of the race. 

 When there is but one male left, he being nearest the 

 queen, she returns to him. seizes him, and the future 

 honeymakers of a vigorous hive, by the fecundation of 

 the strongest male, is assured. 



As said elsewhere, man cannot control the innumer- 

 able forms of cosmic force, which nature uses, in bring- 

 ing about the phenomena of biogeny, or, in fact, any 

 natural phenomena. He has the power only, which his 

 natural organization gives him, to do the acts con- 

 ducive to preserving his own life. His methods of arti- 

 ficial selection to produce new species, as set forth 

 above, prove this. They are the only methods open to 



