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FIG. 66. Hiving a swarm. Photographed from life. 



and however numerous its occupants, should that house 

 meet destruction nothing would be left to tell the tale 

 or replace the loss. But with the distribution of homes 

 throughout the land, the likelihood of a common catas- 

 trophe is much lessened if not wholly improbable. 



Ants. " If the statesman or the philosopher would 

 study a perfect communistic- society, let him throw 

 away his histories of poor human attempts and go 

 and study thoroughly the nearest ant-hill. Then- he 

 will find no love for friend or wife or child, but a love 

 for every one. There everything is done for the good 

 of the whole, and nothing for the individual. The state 

 makes wars, provides food for all, cares for the children, 

 owns all the property. lie will find no complaint 

 against the existing condition of society, no rebels; 

 but the fate of each one is determined bv the accident 



