54 The Honey-Makers 



dowed with sense power than seems to be the case with 

 many a being having a merely human complement of eyes, 

 ears, nose, and tongue. 



One can but wonder if the bee's joy in living is acute in 

 proportion to the amazing sensitiveness of these wonderful 

 organs. We should very much hke to know that. 



Inside the head is the motor that runs the tongue, eyes, 

 and antennae, and gives the bee its consciousness of the 

 outer world. 



The small size of the bee's brain makes its power seem 

 to us the more wonderful. From it emanates such wisdom 

 that from all time the bee has been held as a model before 

 mankind. 



Concerning it Moffett says, voicing the beliefs that had 

 come down through the ages, — 



" Whereas the Almighty hath created all things for the 

 use and service of Man, so especially among the rest hath 

 he made Bees, not only that they should be unto us pat- 

 terns and presidents of political and oeconomical vertues, 

 but even Teachers and School masters instructing us in 

 certain divine knowledge, and like extraordinary Prophets, 

 premonstrating the success and event of things to come." 



And again, — 



" Xenophon likewise in his Oeconomicks, termeth 

 Honey-making the Shop of vertues, and to it sendeth 

 mothers of Housholds to be instructed. Poets gladly 

 compare themselves with Bees, who following Nature only 

 as a School-mistress, use Art." 



Although the bee's brain is so small an object, it is com- 

 plex, and can better be understood by a brief glance at the 

 general nervous system. 



In the larva, which is the undeveloped bee, there is very 

 little differentiation of the nervous system. 



The business of the larva is to eat and assimilate food 



