Honey 
must remember that during the greater part of the 
year most animals have no occupation save that 
of finding their food. Inconspicuously coloured 
fruits, like those of the ivy, are frequently eaten 
by birds. The bright colours of some ripening 
fruits are undoubtedly the colours of decay. 
Many fungi and seaweeds have bright colours, 
It is never hinted that these are of any direct 
utility to their possessor. 
Every flower, every plant, every organism 
must be of some colour. 
Many flowering plants produce honey. This 
is said by some botanists to have been directly 
caused by natural selection, because the honey 
attracts insects. Possibly those who take up 
this attitude are putting the cart before the horse. 
It is probable that honey, like oxygen, is an 
ordinary product of the metabolism of the plant, 
and that the visits of bees and other insects to 
such plants are the result rather than the cause 
of the honey being there. Boisier found that 
some plants, for example, Potentilla tormentilla 
and Geum urbanum, gave honey in Norway, no 
very little near Paris. 
He further discovered that by supplying certain 
plants copiously with water he could induce them 
to produce more than their normal output of 
honey. 
As is their habit, Neo-Darwinians have 
pushed their pet theory to absurd lengths in its 
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