CHAPTER III. 
THE ANTS:—THEIR FLOCKS AND THEIR SLAVES. 
When I learned for the first time, from the pages of 
Huber, the strange and prodigious fact that certain ants 
keep slaves, I was greatly astonished—as everybody has 
been by this singular revelation—but I was especially 
saddened and wounded. 
What! I turn aside from the history of man in 
search of innocence. I hope at least to discover among 
the brute creation the even-handed justice of nature, the 
primitive rectitude of the plan of creation. I seek in 
this people, whom I had previously loved and esteemed 
for their laboriousness and temperateness, the severe and 
touching image of republican virtues—and I find among them this 
thing without a name ! 
