CHAPTER V. 
BEHAVIOUR TO RELATIONS, 
Mr. Grore, in his ‘Fragments on Ethical Subjects,’ 
regards it as an evident necessity that no society can 
exist without the sentiment of morality. ‘ Everyone,’ 
he says, ‘ who has either spoken or written on the sub- 
ject, has agreed in considering this sentiment as ab- 
solutely indispensable to the very existence of society. 
Without the diffusion of a certain measure of this feel- 
ing throughout all the members of the social union, 
the caprices, the desires, and the passions of each 
separate individual would render the maintenance of 
any established communion impossible. Positive 
morality, under some form or other, has existed in 
every society of which the world has ever had ex- 
perience.’ 
If this be so, the question naturally arises whether 
ants also are moral and accountable beings. They have 
their desires, their passions, even their caprices. The 
young are absolutely helpless. Their communities are 
sometimes so numerous, that perhaps London and 
Pekin are almost the only human cities which can 
compare with them. Moreover, their nests are no mere 
