WASPS, SOCIAL AND SOLITARY 



for such elevated ideas. What makes for the welfare of 

 the species they thoroughly attend to, but beyond that 

 point they do not go. 



The socialism of wasps is in a less evolved state than 

 that of bees and ants, and yet there is in it sufficient sacri- 

 fice of self to the common good to excite the respectful 

 wonder of human beings, whose relations to each other 

 and to the state have such different standards. 



