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WASPS
Social and Solitary
Chapter I
COMMUNAL LIFE
“For where’s the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the wasps’ for government.”
“What is not good for the swarm is not good for the wasp.”
AS the tendency of mankind to crowd into towns grows stronger the joys of country life and the workings of Nature are more and more excluded from the daily experience of humanity. In a few the primal love of the wild is too strong for suppression, and turning from the hot and noisy streets they find it a refreshment of spirit to meet our little brothers of earth and air in the wider spaces of their own territory.