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up honey. The rest do not. The same is true of bees; but the method of storing honey prevalent among the bees, in combs, is singularly different from that employed by ants, who gorge a class of the community with it and hang them up to be made to disgorge as desired. Other ants are farmers, others are slaves, etc. Now barring metaphysics, what falsity is there in saying that the ants, all of whom lead a city life their population divided into various trades, have, some of them, special instincts not developed in others? But these differences are so much like the differences between different men, that terms of human vocations are unavoidably used in describing them. A human farmer is very nearly if not quite as incapable of successfully following the life of a human slaver, and vice versa, as the two kinds of ants are of interchanging their habits. Honeybees under certain circumstances change their habits, and even give up storing honey, which must revolutionize their society.