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away to the enemy’s camp, &c.? Is not 
this a strong image of our serious 
quarrels ? 
But how strikingly does it contrast 
with our manners, that the arms, courage, 
military skill, should, in these republics, 
rest with the female sex * ; whilst feeble- 
ness, idleness, and exile, fall to the lot of 
the males. Those of bees, still worse 
treated, are put to death, as soon as they 
have fulfilled their only functions. . With 
wasps and humble-bees, they are also des- 
titute of arms, and show no industry ; but 
they are not the object of the fury of the 
workers: the severity of the winter, as 
they know not, like the females, how to 
shelter themselves, produces, generally 
speaking, their death. By what art are 
the workers charged with the defence of 
the republic, enabled to reconnoitre, 
understand, assist, and succour each 
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* It must be remembered that the workers are 
not neuters, but females, whose moral, if I may use 
this expression, has been developed at the expens2 
oftheir physical condition. — A. 
