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standing ant-republic, the ideal bond of union of social interests, 
and of feeling of public duty, holds together the body of citizens 
remaining free; in this state, on the other hand, the individual 
members of the community are forcibly held together in immediate 
corporate connexion, as slaves under the yoke of the state. It is 
true that here also each individual possesses his individual psyche ; 
if separated from the stem, can move about of his own pleasure, 
and have separate sensation. But, nevertheless, the whole trunk 
possesses an individual central-will, on which the separate indi- 
viduals depend, and a sensation of the community, which is shared 
by each individual with all the others. Each of these medusa- 
individuals of the siphonophor-stock can therefore say of himself, 
with Faust: “Ah! two souls live in my breast!” The egoistic 
soul of the separate individual lives in compromise with the social 
soul of the whole stock, i.e., the state. 
Woe to those medusze of the siphonophor-state which in a 
blind egoism loosen themselves from their community, and wish 
to lead a free life on their own account. Unable to perform all 
the separate duties which are necessary to their self-support, and 
which have been done for them by their fellow-citizens, if separated 
from the latter, they go quickly to the bottom. For one of the 
medusz can only swim, another can only feel, a third only eat,-a 
fourth only catch prey and keep off enemies, &c. Only the 
harmonious joint working and the mutual offices of all the fellow- 
members of this swimming company, only the common mind, the 
central soul, which binds all in true love with one another, can 
confer on the existence of the individuals, as well as on the great 
whole, a continuing duration. So also in human civilised com- 
munities, a continuing existence is only rendered possible by the 
true fulfilment of civil and social duties on the part of the several 
citizens. * 
* Tn our ignorance of the real nature of the psyche, we must ‘‘ beware of 
hasty generalisations” in drawing analogies between animal bodies and human 
or ant communities.—C. H. P. 
