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educators of the slaves now being born into cap- 

 tivity with only some vague instinft of freedom, 

 some race memory handed down from the halcyon 

 days before the advent of the red Tartar. 



If the sluggard is to go to the ant, then let it 

 not be to the red ant, nor again to the slave, but 

 to some Syrian species known to Solomon, which 

 stored up provender for the winter, or to the little 

 brown ant which herds the aphid. Huber relates 

 that he found the slave-making ant of Europe 

 ( P. rufescens ) unable to feed itself, so that, if 

 isolated, it would miserably starve in the midst of 

 plenty. Not to such an ant, then, should the 

 sluggard go, but to that wise yellow species which, 

 declares Lubbock, actually brought in and cared for 

 the eggs of an aphid through the winter, and car- 

 ried out the young aphids in the spring to their 

 proper food plant. Certainly should we ever attain 

 to the dignity of wings, there will be no occasion 

 to emulate the ant, which, being born into that 

 freedom, tears them from its body, the rest of its 

 days to crawl upon the earth. 



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