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they generate should not be of the same kind is peculiar to them, for the
erythrinus generates an erythrinus and the channa a channa. The reason is that
bees themselves are not generated like flies and similar creatures, but from a
kind different indeed but akin to them, for they are produced from the leaders.
Hence in a sort of way their generation is analogous. For the leaders resemble
the drones in size and the bees in possessing a sting; so the bees are like them
in this respect, and the drones are like them in size. For there must needs be
some overlapping unless the same kind is always to be produced from each;
but this is impossible, for at that rate the whole class would consist of leaders.
The bees, then, are assimilated to them their power of generation, the drones
in size; if the latter had had a sting also they would have been leaders, but as
it is this much of the difficulty has been solved, for the leaders are like both
kinds at once, like the bees in possessing a sting, like the drones in size.
But the leaders also must be generated from something. Since it is neither
from the bees nor from the drones, it must be from their own kind. The grubs
of the kings are produced last and are not many in number.
Thus what happens is this: the leaders generate their own kind but also
another kind, that of the bees; the bees again generate another kind, the
drones, but do not also generate their own kind, but this has been denied
them. And since what is according to Nature is always in due order, therefore
it is necessary that it should be denied to the drones even to generate another
kind than themselves. This is just what we find happening, for though the
drones are themselves generated, they generate nothing else, but the process
reaches its limit in the third stage. And so beautifully is this arranged by
Nature that the three kinds always continue in existence and none of them
fails, though they do not all generate.
Another fact is also natural, that in fine seasons much honey is collected
and many drones are produced but in rainy reasons a large brood of ordinary
bees. For the wet causes more residual matter to be formed in the bodies of
the leaders, the fine weather in that of the bees, for being smaller in size they
need the fine weather more than the kings do. It is right also that the kings,
being as it were made with a view to producing young, should remain within,
freed from the labour of procuring necessaries, and also that they should be of
a considerable size, their bodies being, as it were, constituted with a view to
bearing young, and that the drones should be idle as having no weapon to
fight for the food and because of the slowness of their bodies. But the bees are
intermediate in size between the two other kinds, for this is useful for their
work, and they are workers as having to support not only their young but also
their fathers. And it agrees with our views that the bees attend upon their
kings because they are their offspring (for if nothing of the sort had been the
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156