AXT COMMUNITIES 



impulse and restraint in man, without which no com- 

 munal government is long possible. What is it that 

 imparts to our genus elements of chaos, crime, misrule, 

 and misery so far beyond the qualities of social insects 

 (if also so vastly above them), and which starts up in 

 the path of history records of communal disorder that 

 one seeks in vain among ants, hornets, and wasps? 

 Why should a creature with a conscience ever be less 

 steadfast and exemplary in communal righteousness 

 than a citizen of a commune of mound-making ants? 



