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highly-developed division of labor found in those States. 

 It is not otherwise among men, and culture only attain- ii- 

 highest development when an ordered polity assigns to each 

 his individual place, where the common life and the common 

 work of many for a common object develops the slumbering 

 powers and capacities of each, whereas these powers would 

 remain ever in concealment among solitary, unsocial men. 

 And have we not already seen in the humble bee that the 

 manifestation of its intelligence and its industry appears in 

 the measure in which its societies increase? 



