ANT COMMUNITIES 



and impersonal but imperial executive, the self-directing 

 ])o\ver of every individual seems perfect. Is this social- 

 ism? nature's type of a practical socialism? Learn 

 this, then : if socialism as a form of human government 

 would be equally or even approximately successful, it 

 ni ust first attain that perfect individual discipline and ab- 

 solute self-control, self -abnegation, self-surrender, and self- 

 devotion to the good of the whole community that one sees 

 in a Commonwealth of Ants. 



