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BRUTE FORCE AND INTELLECT 
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no longer possess the artistic and teaching class, without which all 
peoples perish. Reduced to a military career, they could not live two 
days if they did not take unto themselves slaves. Therefore, that they 
may not perish, they carry off the little black ants, which tend them, 
it is true, but also govern them. And this not only in the city itself, 
but in its external relations,—deciding or adjourning their expeditions, 
and regulating their campaigns; while the red, far from regulating the 
affairs of peace, do not seem even to comprehend them. 
Singular triumph of intelligence ! Invincible power of genius ! 
