How “Out of This World #12” begins
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Out of this world
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Science studies and wonders about the ant… An insect, yet capable of a highly organized social system, in proportion to its size many times stronger than man! An intelligent insect, but just how intelligent? Professor gregor waldeck was a scientist and he asked himself the same question… "just how intelligent?" and… He found out!
You see, joseph, the other ants immediately kill any ant which shows mutation in any form!
But we know they mutate freely! In the ant colonies in school for study we find many mutant ants!
Ah, but those mutations we find are always small in scope! The ants seem to sense a drastic mutation soon after it leaves the egg, and they kill it! I wonder… I wonder…
Why do you search constantly to find a mutation, professor waldeck?
Because i have studied ants all my life! I think they have intellectual powers beyond our expectations! And i think that mutations are born, but killed, some have intelligence that could be amazing!
Then why do the other ants kill them?
That is one of the things i want to find out… If i can ever find a true, intellectual mutant! If i can find one with a larger skull-case…
Look, herr professor, here is another young one they are setting upon! And its head looks proportionally large…
Let me see…
Yes, yes! I think this is what i've been looking for! Quick, joseph, i must rescue it…
There! Now let us go quickly to my house and test its intelligence with my quotient machine!
The other fellows laugh at that machine you invented to test insect intelligence, professor! I try to tell them it really works but they jibe me!
Let them laugh! I will tell you some thing, my young friend, the world needs many answers to many problems that are beyond man's intelligence! It is in my mind always, that there must exist somewhere an intelligence greater than man's which the world awaits to solve its problems… Perhaps, joseph, that intelligence is here, in this little box!