28 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. 
that have devised a summary access to the honey-glands, and 
of these bees, only a few have discovered the easiest method 
of entrance. Moreover, each generation of bees has to make 
the discovery for itself, for no bumble bee survives the winter 
to impart instruction to the coming generation, 
3,—Is the conscious intelligence exoteric? In other words, 
is it the consequence of external and superior mandate 
or suggestion, acting upon a suitable physical recep- 
tacle ? 
This question leads upon ground upon which the light 
of scientific evidence has scarcely fallen as yet. In those 
remarkable chapters of the Book of Job, the 38th and three 
following ones, wherein the Lord answers Job out of the 
whirlwind, there is a great deal of reference to matter most 
interesting to the zoologist. They should be read, for 
lucidity, in the Revised Version :— 
‘The wing of the ostrich rejoiceth. 
But are her pinions and feathers kindly (or like the stork’s)? 
For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, 
And warmeth them in the dust, 
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, 
Or that the wild beast may trample them. 
She is hardened against her young ones, as if they were not 
hers; 
Though her labours be in vain, she is without fear; 
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom. 
Neither hath He imparted to her understanding.® 
Here the author of life is considered naturally as the 
source of consciousness, nor is any other source likely to 
suggest itself to one who feels that there must be a design- 
ing, controlling, and directing head of the universe. To 
expunge that factor from our speculations only lands us in 
darker perplexity. Yet of the nature of that Controlling 
Head, ‘‘ whom no man hath seen or can see,’’ and of the 
means whereby He may communicate mandates or inspire 
8 Job xxxix., 13-17. 
