Their species undergo modifications in special circumstances, [267]
The influence of intellect over brute force exemplified, [268]
CHAPTER IV.—THE ANTS: CIVIL WAR—EXTERMINATION OF THE COMMUNITY.
It is the punishment of the tyrant that he cannot readily set free his captive, [271]
The caged nightingale, and the clod of earth, [272]
This clod proves to contain a republic of carpenter-ants, [272]
An effort is made to found a new community; difficulties in the way, [273]
An encounter between the carpenter-ants and some mason-ants, [274]
In which the victory is on the side of the Little, [275]
Who carry off the young of the conquered, [276]