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CHAP. IV. 
OF THE RELATION BETWEEN ANTS. 
OF those insects that live solitary, their 
generation, their private habits, the me- 
tamorphoses they undergo, and their 
mode of living under each variety of 
change, their artifices in attacking 
their enemies, and the art with which 
they construct their habitations, forms 
their whole history. But the history of 
insects, living in extensive societies, is not 
limited to any remarkable proceedings, 
or to the display of any particular talent ; 
it offers us a series of links depending 
upon common utility, equality or supe- 
