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lived in, and the universe around him. From the beginning, however, 

 man's supreme faculty has been his creative imagination; even the 

 making of a flint tool required some degree of visualization. 



Throughout human history imagination has prevailed over reason. 

 Down to the modern scientific period, observed natural facts have been 

 explained by the invention of myths and superstitions. Though in 

 recent times man has made strenuous efforts to eliminate his ignorance, 

 he still does not know everything, and even today in some quarters 

 fiction is more honored than facts. Yet it is to imagination that we 

 owe some of the best products of the human mind, such as art, archi- 

 tecture, music, religion, and much of literature. Without these em- 

 bellishments the practicalities of life would be hard to endure. 



From this brief review of human civilization we can admit that our 

 form of society is far from perfect, and it would seem that the social 

 insects can have no cause to envy us. In addition to juvenile delin- 

 quency, crime, political squabbles, and revolutions, we have the still 

 more deplorable lack of international harmony. The fires of nation- 

 alism perpetually burning beneath the surface are ever ready to erupt 

 in the surge of some nation to subdue its neighbors or to dominate the 

 world. Still with all this, so long as we maintain individual freedom 

 we should not care to exchange places with the insects. 



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