own. In a civilization of super-ants or bees, there would have
been no problem of the hungry unemployed, no poverty, no unstable
government, no riots, no strikes for short hours, no derision of
eugenics, no thieves, perhaps no crime at all.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights.
An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently: he just has his duties.

This quality may have something to do with their having groups wars.
The egotism of their individual spirits is allowed scant expression,
so the egotism of the groups is extremely ferocious and active. Is
this one of the reasons why ants fight so much? We have seen the same
phenomenon occur in certain nations of men. And the ants commit
atrocities in and after their battles that are--I wish I could truly
say--inhuman.

But conversely, ants are absolutely unselfish within the community.
They are skilful. Ingenious. Their nests and buildings are
relatively larger than man's. The scientists speak of their paved
streets, vaulted halls, their hundreds of different domesticated
animals, their pluck and intelligence, their individual initiative,
their chaste and industrious lives. Darwin said the ant's brain
was "one of the most marvelous atoms in the world, perhaps more so
than the brain of man"--yes, of present-day man, who for thousands
and thousands of years has had so much more chance to develop his
brain. . . .A thoughtful observer would have weighed all these
excellent qualities.