He keeps captive certain bugs that secrete a sweet juice 

 for him, on which he feeds, just as we keep cows. He 

 keeps slaves, warriors, servants, has grave yards, per- 

 forms funeral services and many other social acts and 

 customs performed by man. The ant's brain, where the 

 center of his intelligence is located, is composed of but 

 few cells, so few that the whole crowd of cells in charge 

 of all the social and various actions of the ant can be seen 

 only with the microscope. 



Again the actions of a louse, which lives under the 

 mouth of the ant, exhibits just as much intelligence as a 

 man would show placed under similar circumstances. The 

 cell which builds the ant-louse, the ant, the animal and 

 man are one and the same kind of individual. There are 

 no features of distinction about any of them, so that you 

 can tell one from the other, when examined by the micro- 

 scope. The only difference that can exist in their make 

 up is a difference in their experience. One kind has been 

 living one kind of life and oae another. 



One understands how to build an ant because he has 

 had experience in that work and in that kind of existence 

 and none other; the other kind has had experience in 

 building the individual we call man. In reference to the 

 intelligent acts of the ants and the ant-louse, I must quote 

 Prof. C. E. Walker, of the Royal College of Science in 

 London : 



"A mite, Antennophorus uhlmanni, is parasitic upon an 

 ant (Lasius). The mite is of such a size that it would 

 hamper the movements of the ant if it were attached on 

 one side or the other. It attaches itself under the middle 

 of the ant's head. The mite eats the food of the ant, but 

 does not injure it individually ; for anything that pre- 

 vented the ant seeking its food would directly injure the 

 parasite. When the ant feeds, the mite moves forward 



