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necessary that individual interests be subordinated in 

 a perfect socialism ; the communal instincts alone must 

 vivify the individual. It may be claimed that these 

 socialists are only insects, but the fact remains that 

 they are the most intelligent creatures in this world 

 that have, up to the present, made socialism a success. 



It seems, then, from our study, that the most serious 

 question that confronts our socialists of to-day is how 

 to make man, in whom the individual instinct has 

 grown strong through eons of development, conform 

 to a plan in which the greatest success is attained 

 only by the total effacement of individuality. It will 

 surely require a large plan to include the greatest 

 development of the individual and the utter levelling 

 of social inequality — two tendencies that have ever 

 pointed in diametrically opposite directions. 



Epilogue : Individualism as taught by the Bees 



After studying the social development of these little 

 creatures we are again reminded that when the course 

 of evolution is set in one direction everything conduces 

 to make that path the main road of progress and devel- 

 opment. At first, and in the lower forms of life, it is 

 the individual against the world. The next step is the 

 union of two and the care of the young by one or both 

 parents. Then it is the family against the world, the 



