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have existed in the Trias or even in the Lias, bnt belonged to so few 

 genera and species, or lived in such small communities that they left no 

 remains." This distinguished student cites 276 Tertiary species as in- 

 dicative of their sudden outburst, or perhaps it would be safer to say the 

 development of better modes for their preservation, and he has further 

 stated that there is no reliable observation to prove that polymorphism 

 was existent among the earliest ants of this long period. This differentia- 

 tion does, however, show itself in the fossil ants of the Quaternary. 



This paramount development of intellectual activity in the line of 

 insect development, in the line of the six-legged type, would seem thus 

 to haw been accomplished largely through the same period of time when 

 the human line was perfecting its mentality. The psychology of the two 

 ultimate results is separated by processes and directions of development 

 as wide apart as the poles. N'either is to be expressed, perhaps, in terms 

 of the other. The results, too, are wide asunder — one a deadly com- 

 munism, a moribimd partition of labor, a lethal socialism; the other an 

 active, progressive, and fertile individualism. For the former the student 

 of nature's history sees no outcome. These, too, are nature's experiments. 

 The six-legged type, with all its purposes in its highest expression, lies 

 prostrate on the ground at our feet; it and its achievements have risen 

 to nothing higher than an ant hill; its communistic relations and sub- 

 servience are entirely apart from the true genius of humanity. Socialism 

 and communism have been tried out and found wanting, and nature holds 

 conspicuously before the eye of the State the warning that they have noth- 

 ing either for the growth of the spirit or the progress of the intellect. 



c I regard as peculiarly a doctrine of paleontology, one whose demon- 

 stration or confutation would be hopeless in the hands of the l)iologist, 

 that of palingenesis, or recapitulation, or, in other words, the broad and 

 familiar statement of the fact that each individual carries in himself and 

 Iris development history, the history of the race to which he belongs, 

 however accelerated or however retarded it may be. I am trenching 

 familiar ground, but it is because I would remind this audience that not 

 the mere existence but the panorama of life is essential to this concep- 

 tion, and that the law remains merely an assumption of probability as 

 long as its manifestations are pursued only among creatures of high 

 specialization. In our bodies politic the more complicated our existence 

 becomes, the more like a tangled web of ordinances become our statutes. 

 Forty-five tliousand new statutes it is said have been enacted in the last 

 five years in these States for some of us to trip and fall over, and just as 

 it is difficult to pick our way through this tangle of expediential legis- 



