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complishment depends entirely upon the success with which 
the group is maintained. 
The possibility of the insect and human types of society 
becoming identical was the third question asked at the 
beginning. The two societies face the same problems, and 
in some instances their methods of solution are the same. 
But in the development of the means by which these 
methods are carried out the two societies are different. In 
the discussion of the methods by which the two societies 
are re-created, and the workers developed, the points of 
difference were stated. And there it was brought out that 
the two types of society are not homologous. The funda- 
mental difference, and one which is insurmountable, is the 
difference between the Hexapods and the Placentalia. 
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