36 DIFFERENCE OF ORGANIC STRUCTURE. 



and frequent. In order, however, to bolster up this rotten 

 theory, Huber has deemed it necessary, in defiance of the 

 truth, to alter the organic structure of the two kinds of bees, 

 by giving to one a stomach which is capable of distension, 

 and to the other, one which is not, although the same or a 

 greater quantity of liquid be received into it. 



There is, however, another and more insoluble difficulty, 

 which the Huberians have to surmount, in support of this 

 part of their theory, which is, at what particular stage of 

 the life of the bee, was that difference in its organic structure 

 imparted to it ? Was the principle of that difference inherent 

 in the egg, or did the change in its structure take place after 

 its emerging from the cell ? It is but just that the Huber- 

 ians should solve this knotty question ; although, perhaps, 

 they are not aware of the dilemma in which they are involved, 

 by attributing a positive difference of organical structure in 

 an individual species of insect, to which also a different sys- 

 tem of action, and a direct diversity of animal functions are 

 attached. It certainly will not be denied by the Huberians, 

 that the principle of the organic structure of either bird or 

 insect is inherent in the egg from which it is to spring ; if 

 then, according to Huber, there be a difference in the 

 organic structure of the bees, that is, in the nurse bee and 

 the wax worker, the principle of that difference must have 

 existed in the egg, when deposited in the cell by the queen ; 

 and here we arrive at one of the gross contradictions of 

 Huber. He admits that the queen lays but three kinds of 

 eggs ; that is, the queen eggs, the drone eggs, and the eggs of 

 the common bees ; yet, that from the latter originate four or 

 five kinds of insects, differing from each other in their organic 

 structure. Huber saw the difficulty of this dilemma, and in 

 order to escape from it, he informs us, in the full spirit of 

 contradiction, that the queen does not lay all the eggs in the 

 hive, for that he once entrapped a common worker depositing 

 its egg, from which he supposes that a male bee is to spring. 



