"
"Of course," reflected Billie, aloud; "of course, there were other
factors."
"Yes; but they don't alter the case. Originally the human was only
slightly different from the apes he associated with. There was
perhaps only one slight point of superiority; today there are
millions of such points. Man is infinitely superior, now, and it's
all because he was slightly superior, then."
"Suppose we grant that," remarked the geologist. "What then? Does
that explain why the bees have made good on Sanus?"
"To a large degree. Some time in the past the Sanusian bee
discovered that he possessed a certain power which enabled him to
force his will upon other creatures. This power was his poisonous
sting. He found that, when he got his fellows together and formed a
swarm, they could attack any animal in such large numbers as to make
it helpless."
"Any creature?"
"Yes; even reptiles, scales or no scales. They'd attack the eyes."
"But that doesn't explain how the bees ever began to make humans
work for them," objected Van Emmon.
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