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ANTS AND ANT LIFE. 



Or of the beautiful times of romantic chivalry, when every 

 spurred noble commanded a large or small number of bond- 

 men or personal retainers. But have we ever heard of any 

 one of these little lords rising to the self-renunciation of the 

 royal ant-mind, and taking part in the useful work of his 

 subjects ? Truly, man ought not to forget that only men 

 have reason, and that animals, according to the philosophers, 

 have merely instinct ! 



