CHAPTER XVI 

 A NOTE IN REVIEW 



WHILE emphasizing, to the utmost that known facts 

 can justify, the marks of superior instincts in ants, 

 and while believing that their social organization has 

 developed powers and incited to behavior that suggest 

 human conduct in certain communal conditions, the 

 author must not be understood as in any degree con- 

 founding emmet instinct with human intellect. There 

 is an impassable gulf between them. 



To reflect upon a rule of conduct; to decide thereupon 

 and frame one's behavior accordingly; to assemble facts 

 gleaned from the past and from the present; to reason 

 upon and deduce therefrom principles of duty and ser- 

 vice, of social and individual government, of personal 

 responsibility and worship and immortality all this, 

 which is impossible to the ant, but is within the ordinary 

 powers of man, set him in a class by himself, so far apart 

 from all other animals that, in contrasting or comparing 

 the one with the other, and in tracing resemblances be- 

 tween their physical and social actions, we shall fall into 

 serious error if we forget this fundamental difference. 



When, therefore, we use the word "intelligent" to ex- 

 press a quality of animal behavior, as it seems necessary 

 to do in the deficiency of our language, we shall escape 

 confusion in our philosophy if we remember that " in- 

 telligent" and " intelligence" as so applied are terms of 



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