8 LUTHER BURBAXK 



It was naive beciuie it quite orerlooked the 

 true ligniflctnce of the function of odcm in 

 nature. 



A moment's further reflection would have 

 shown the young woman that not at 



oU a question of the hee liking tibe things 

 that man likes* hut a question of man hav- 

 ing learned to like the things that the bee 

 likes. 



The fragrance of the flower was not put forth 

 to please or displease man, but tu please and 

 attract the insect 



And man learned to like the odors that were 

 constantly presented to him largely because they 

 were constantly presented ; just as you may learn 

 to like a food — say, for example, olives — by 

 repeatedly tasting it, though at first you do not 

 care for it 



The exception, of course, is the odor that 

 is associated with unhygienic things, such as 

 decaying vegetable and animal matter. These 

 are attractive to the insects that feed un them 

 because the substances that produce the odors 

 are to these insects wholesome. But they do not 

 attract the bee because they contain nothing on 

 which that insect can feed; and tliey do not 

 attract us because for us the substances that 

 produce them are pernicious. 



