. Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools, and for general reading. Tailor Bird. MAN AND THE INFLKKIt 351 Contrivances in the honey-comb. Mathematical principles exactly applied. 536. While there is no change in the acts of instinct theyare marked by perfection. That is, they are perfectly adaptedto the purposes to be effected and to the circumstances underwhich they are performed. The Creator, who directs the im-pulse that governs the animal, in this case as well as in allothers, accurately fits the means to the ends to be is no
. Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools, and for general reading. Tailor Bird. MAN AND THE INFLKKIt 351 Contrivances in the honey-comb. Mathematical principles exactly applied. 536. While there is no change in the acts of instinct theyare marked by perfection. That is, they are perfectly adaptedto the purposes to be effected and to the circumstances underwhich they are performed. The Creator, who directs the im-pulse that governs the animal, in this case as well as in allothers, accurately fits the means to the ends to be is nothing in which this perfection of instinct is bettershown than in the construction of the honey-comb. The cellsare made hexagonal, because in this way all the space is occu-pied—there is no waste of room. If the cells were made cir-cular, there would not only be a waste of room, but a largoquantity of material would be needed to fill up the spaces be-tween the cells. The difference can be seen in the two Figures189 and 190. Each comb, it is to be observed farther, ha& two FIG. 189. FIG. 190.
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