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CHAP. V. 
OF THE WARS OF ANTS, AND SOME OTHER 
PARTICULARS. 
Tue scourge of war, is it inseparable 
from the state of society? Ants, whose 
civilization appears more developed than 
we had reason to expect, whose manners 
announce harmony, reciprocal attention, 
regard for their females, union and _per- 
fect equality between the several mem- 
bers of their republic, do they present us 
‘an example of that law, which ordains, 
that species too abundant should be their 
own destroyers? Nature has so willed 
it! It was necessary that ants should still 
have with us this relation, the necessity 
for which rests upon plans too elevated 
for our feeble conception. 
