feminine by her moral instincts only: she has all the tenderness, the
patience, and the foresight that we call "maternal;" but her sex has
disappeared, like the sex of the Dragon-Maiden in the Buddhist legend.


For defense against creatures of prey, or enemies of the state, the
workers are provided with weapons; and they are furthermore protected by a
large military force. The warriors are so much bigger than the workers (in
some communities, at least) that it is difficult, at first sight, to
believe them of the same race. Soldiers one hundred times larger than the
workers whom they guard are not uncommon. But all these soldiers are
Amazons,-- or, more correctly speaking, semi-females. They can work
sturdily; but being built for fighting and for heavy pulling chiefly, their
usefulness is restricted to those directions in which force, rather than
skill, is required.



[Why females, rather than males, should have been evolutionally
specialized into soldiery and laborers may not be nearly so simple a
question as it appears. I am very sure of not being able to answer it. But
natural economy may have decided the matter. In many forms of life, the
female greatly exceeds the male in bulk and in energy;-- perhaps, in this
case, the larger reserve of life-force possessed originally by the complete
female could be more rapidly and effectively utilized for the development
of a special fighting-caste. All energies which, in the fertile female,
would be expended in the giving of life seem here to have been diverted to
the evolution of aggressive power, or working-capacity.]