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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: the pleasure of unselfish action. Or, again to quote Mr. Spencer, the
activities of the insect-society are "activities which postpone individual
well-being so completely to the well-being of the community that individual
life appears to be attended to only just so far as is necessary to make
possible due attention to social life,... the individual taking only just
such food and just such rest as are needful to maintain its vigor."
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I hope my reader is aware that ants practise horticulture and agriculture;
that they are skillful in the cultivation of mushrooms; that they have
domesticated (according to present knowledge) five hundred and eighty-four
different kinds of animals; that they make tunnels through solid rock; that
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