A DAILY MESSAGE
THE STINGING BEE ! Human wasps are those humans “ in whom the will to sting ” is found in its most active mood and positive form. As Nature never intended humans to compete with wasps, she left out the “ stinger ” when assembling the human. Hut the human wasp felt as unfinished without a “ stinger ” as a cat would feci without claws. M hat would life he to a. wasp without- a stinger? And so, in oliedienee to his notion of what the complete equipment of a human wasp should be, the human wasp has evolved a “ stinger ” out of what was intended for a tongue. And the tongue of the “ human ” wasp has become a deadlier “stinger” than the deadliest “ stinger ” of the other kind of wasp. The other kind 'of wasp merely stings—lint tlie “stinger 7 ’ of the human wasp wounds, poisons, scarifies, mortifies, and crucifies.
If you must lie a busy hue, don’t be a hornet; he the other kind of bee—the lionev bee.
You can be just as busy gathering honey as you can be delivering stings.
—M. PRESTON STANLEY.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1929, Page 1
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184A DAILY MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1929, Page 1
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