EDITORIAL

Gun Flash, Issue III, 16 January 1943, Page 1

EDITORIAL

..One of the most hard-working social insects on. the face of 0 the earth is tho bee. , It works according to a marvellous plan. Those who have made a study of architecture and of engineering. are in wonder at the beauty yet economy of its work in the .construction of the comb in which, is stored the precious honey. The geometric form of the honey cell /'has been work* ed out mathematically, as being.the' alomost perfect economic 'form of stor- T age, . A maximum of honey can be put in a minimum of apace. The bee makes a honey comb', ■_ and then sets about fillin/} it. And .yet the bee does not work. by intelligence, but by Instinct. Z lt has, a 'job of work to do, and it does it smoothly, efficiently, and economically, Man normally does not act by instinct. Ho reasons and the performance of -his work is the result of his intellectual processes. -It may' be a far cry from the carrying, out of a command in a war zone, to a reasoning process. •We- have a job to do - not the building of a honey comb - but .. the building .a ’world in which it is no disgrace for a free human being ; to. live. Let us not become mere dumb animals, working by instinct. Let us preserve that which, is our own special right - our ability to reason. Perhaps we are unable to see the sense in doinf: this or that, but do not . ; forget. the -winning of tao war does not depend on our -individual effort ■•< more than the whole hive depends on the' work of one boo. . It is the e co-operative effort that will ..eventually bring victory. Let . our reasons proceed along these lines - and then wo. will bo acting, not as. automatons »• twig*.**-, wwTiliWlia .T - a **«>»»'■»W iii in ■wllWM-. ■—2T. , JB3wnate^ m—■Em or robots, but as rational human. beings. ~ Jn*TOMlTi ii '■ohnhuim _t x ti i i i<Wi ~ - ■ ■ '•* .