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CHAP. XII. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THOSE INSECTS THAT 
LIVE IN REPUBLICS. 
Aurnover we have yet much to learn 
respecting the manners and habits of 
insects; we may still, I think, from the 
observations which have been brought 
together, attempt their distribution ac- 
cording to the developement of their 
instinct, so as to be enabled to rectify 
mistakes, when subsequent discoveries 
shall have adduced fresh information. 
This classification does not exactly 
answer to the chain in which Bonnet 
has ranged all living beings, by tracing 
resemblances between their organiza- 
tion: still less does it correspond with 
