The Resin-bees 



Incapacity, even of the most expert, proclaim 

 loudly that animal industry, in its infinite va- 

 riety, Is due to other causes besides the pos- 

 session of tools? Certainly, each of those 

 specialists requires Implements; but they are 

 rough-and-ready Implements, good for all 

 sorts of purposes, like the tool of Franklin's 

 workman. The same notched mandible that 

 reaps cotton, cuts leaves and moulds pitch 

 also kneads mud, scrapes decayed wood and 

 mixes mortar; the same tarsus that manufac- 

 tures cotton and disks cut out of leaves Is no 

 less clever at the art of making earthen parti- 

 tions, clay turrets and gravel mosaics. 



What then is the reason of these thousand 

 industries? In the light of facts, I can see 

 but one: Imagination governing matter. A 

 primordial Inspiration, a talent antecedent to 

 the actual form, directs the tool Instead of 

 being subordinate to It. The instrument does 

 not determine the manner of industry; the 

 tool does not make the workman. At the be- 

 ginning there Is an object, a plan. In view of 

 which the animal acts, unconsciously. Have 

 we eyes to sec with, or do we sec because we 

 have eyes? Does the function create the or- 

 gan, or the organ the function? Of the two 



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