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disciplined troops, showing ingenuity in the crossing of 

 difficult places, assisting each other in danger, defending 

 their nests at the risk of their lives, communicating in- 

 formation rapidly to a great distance, making a regular 

 division of work, the whole community taking charge of 

 the rearing of the young, and all imbued with a strong 

 sense of industry, each individual labouring not for itself 

 alone but for all its fellows — we may imagine that Sir 

 Thomas More's description of Utopia might have been 

 applied with greater justice to such a community than to 

 any human society. " But in Utopia, where every man 

 has a right to everything, they do all know that if care 

 is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can 

 want anything ; for among them there is no unequal 

 distribution, so that no man is poor or in any necessity, 

 and though no man has anything yet they are all rich ; 

 for what can make a man so rich as to lead a secure and 

 happy life, free from anxieties, neither apprehending want 

 himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife. 

 He is not afraid of the misery of his children, nor is he 

 contriving how to raise a portion for his daughters, but is 

 secure in this, that both he and his wife, his children and 

 grandchildren, to as many generations as he can fancy,, 

 will all live both plentifully and happily." ' 



