268 LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 
which in some ways show even greater intelligence 
than the bees. Then these last would claim our 
attention, with their frugal habits, their industry in 
storing up honey, their wonderful cities, in which 
each citizen has his duty, and their love for their 
queen. And, lastly, we arrive at the ants, and to 
these we must devote the next chapter, since to 
speak of the others would need a whole book, and 
the bees we have dealt with elsewhere.' 35 ' In the ants 
we shall find that life has worked out her masterpiece 
among insects, and in them we can best learn to 
understand how far we have travelled, since we started 
with the Amoeba, passing gradually from mere living, 
feeding, and dying atoms of life, to active, intelligent 
beings, whose life depends quite as much, and even 
more, upon the inward work of the brain than upon 
the outer weapons of the body. 
* Fairyland of Science. 
