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 impulse and restraint in man, without which no communal government is long possible. What is it that imparts to our genus elements of chaos, crime, misrule, and misery so far beyond the qualities of social insects (if also so vastly above them), and which starts up in the path of history records of communal disorder that one seeks in vain among ants, hornets, and wasps? Why should a creature with a conscience ever be less steadfast and exemplary in communal righteousness than a citizen of a commune of mound-making ants?