...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the workerbees, think it a sacred duty...their fertile daughters; and no one would think of interfering."139) This passage exhibited Darwin's relativism quite clearly, 137) Spectator, 1867, 1255....

...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters; and no one would think of interfering. (Darwin 1871, i, p. 73) If what we believe to be right depends so heavily on our being humans rather...

...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...brothers, and mothers would strive to kill their fertile daughters."21 If we made the modifications necessary to accommodate bees or other nonhuman animals,...

...under exactly the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters; and no one would think of interfering" (Darwin 1871). The view that our moral ideas are an accident of biology seems inconsistent with, for...

...if humans were raised as hive bees, "our unmarried females, like worker bees, [would] think it their sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would...daughters; and no one would think of interfering."™ Although man is not a hive bee, his actions are still judged right and wrong as they affect the welfare...

...species'). Darwin speculated that the moral sense of people reared like bees would insist that it was their 'sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would...daughters, and no one would think of interfering'. 2 Science-fiction writers have indulged themselves in thinking of alien species whose 'moral sense'...

...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters; and no one would think of interfering" (305). Most of Darwin's contemporaries were doubly appalled at his speculation that all humanity grew...

...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...case gain, as it appears to me, some feeling of right or wrong, or a conscience. For the individual would have an inward sense of possessing certain stronger...

...imagines what we would be like had we evolved from bee-like ancestors, concluding that "unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters; and no one would think of interfering" ((1879) 2004: 122). Yet at the same time he remains apparently confident in his own Victorian moral...

...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters; and no one would think of interfering" (Darwin 1871, p. 102). On the "unsociality" of social insects, cf. Whitfield 2002. 36 explanation of...