i8o INCLUSIVE SYMPATHETIC REACTION 



This is an example of inclusive, sympathetic 

 reaction, without which no undertaking that 

 necessitates combined labour can be accom- 

 plished. 



If this is so in the instance of a human 

 community, how much more perfect must be 

 the system where the " seat of mentality " is 

 infalhble and the individual units devoid of 

 reasoning powers. 



From this it will be seen that the human 

 members and the insect units of a community 

 behave in a very similar manner. In either 

 case their actions are, so to speak, automatic. 

 But there is always this difference between the 

 human and the insect unit, namely, whereas 

 the former must first learn and then practise 

 his one job until it becomes subconsciously 

 impressed, the latter, being incapable of 

 intelligent effort, acts, from the first, in 

 accordance with spontaneous knowledge — 

 knowledge which, in the case of bees, includes 

 the execution of many duties simultaneously 

 performed. But in both instances one mind 

 pervades the whole company. 



Another example, in which the reasoning 

 faculty is eliminated, is presented when we 

 come to consider the functional operations, 

 simultaneously performed, which are in con- 

 stant process within the human body. In 



