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numerable plants and animals, which has been of 

 immense advantage to them, is so. A hive of bees 

 is an organic polity, a society in which the part 

 played by each member is determined by organic 

 necessities. Queens, workers, and drones are, so to 

 speak, castes, divided from one another by marked 

 physical barriers. Among birds and mammals, 

 societies are formed, of which the bond in many cases 

 seems to be purely psychological ; that is to say, it 

 appears to depend upon the liking of the individuals 

 for one another's company. The tendency of 

 individuals to over self-assertion is kept down by 

 fighting. Even in these rudimentary forms of society, 

 love and fear come into play, and enforce a greater 

 or less renunciation of self-will. To this extent the 

 general cosmic process begins to be checked by a rudi- 

 mentary ethical process, which is, strictly speaking, 

 part of the former, just as the ' governor ' in a steam- 

 engine is part of the mechanism of the engine. 



JVote 21 (p. 82). 



See " Government : Anarchy or Regimentation, '* 

 Collected Essays, vol. i. pp. 413 — 418. It is this 

 form of political philosophy to which I conceive 

 the epithet of ' reasoned savagery ' to be strictly 

 applicable. [1894.] 



Note 22 (p. 83). 



" L'homme n'est qu'un roseau, le plus faible de 

 la nature, mais c'est un roseau pensant. 11 ne faut 



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