I ATlnx in;; 



in ioeb il the most powerful weapon in the 



>trui?gle for lit'.-. HMI-SCH, although hailly organized on 

 the whole for resisting their enemies ami the advene 

 conditions of climate, would noon have been exterminated 



were it not for th -.I.- -pint. The wolf and the 



bear cannot capture a horse unlc>s the animal becomes 



detached from tin- herd. If a U-a-t of prey approach*-, 



several stud- u and n -pulse the beast, some- 



times even chasing it. When a snowstorm rages, studs 

 crowd t< ami t! tli of their several bodies 



keeps thrni from t ! If the -roup disperses, tin- 



horses perish ninl the >ur\i\"rs are found after the. 

 storm, halt'.i -m fatiiMi.-. Tin- rmninoii ant thrives 



without haviiiLT :iny of the prot^-m f.-atun-s whirl 



livinir in i>olati-.| life possess. Its color renders it 

 conspicuous a ml it- -tin^i> imt f<>rini<lalM< ants are 



dreaoV<] l.\ mo^ Their mo>t important 



sourn- of -treiiirth eon^ists in the maintenanee of a hiirhly 

 COOp<Tati\e m-<np life. The animals whieh know best 

 how to coinlim- have tin- -t chances for further 



evt.lution, even though they may be ii to oth-- 



each >f the faculties enuin. y Darwin and Wallace, 



save in the intellectual faculty. 4 This last is generally 

 admitted to be the most powerful ail in the struggle for 

 BXlsi I'ut the intellectual faculty is eminently a 



:', faculty. "LaOj . Miitation, ami accuinn 



ice are so many elements of growing intelligence 

 of which the unsociable animal is deprived." For this 

 reason we find at the top ,,f each class of animals, those 

 which combine the irn-atcst sociability with the highest 



opment of intelli '!', tif.t are tlius the 



mostsociahle animals, and >ociahility appears as the chief 



Kropotkin. P. Mutual Aid. 1004, (v Ibid. 



