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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, so- 

 cieties 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 in- 

 dividuals to over self-assertion is kept down by 

 fighting. Even in these rudimentary forms of so- 

 ciety, 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 rudimentary ethical process, which is, 

 strictly speaking, part of the former, just as the 

 " governor " in a steam-engine is part of the mechan- 

 ism of the engine. 



Note 21 (p. 82). 



See " Government : Anarchy or Eegimentation," 

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

 of political philosophy to which I conceive the epi- 

 thet of " reasoned savagery " to be strictly applica- 

 ble. [1894.] 



Note 22 (p. 83). 



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

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



