ANT COMMUNITIES 



revision to serve as an accurate account of a scene in 

 the warfare and predatory expeditions of men. One 

 who has viewed both events the storming of an ant- 

 hill and the assault upon a fortified town will vouch 

 for the striking resemblances that appear throughout 

 the entire series. 



Perhaps those whose sympathies have been keenly 

 enlisted by the author's recital of the cruelties and suf- 

 ferings attending the wars of slave-making ants will not 

 deny the plea for peace, universal peace, as the ultimate 

 end of civilized men; and meanwhile the mitigation, in 

 every attainable way and measure, of the awful rigors 



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of war as now tolerated in a world still so largely in 



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a state o^ nature, unhallowed by Christian grace and 

 truth. 



