It has been discovered that ants are able, by a systematic method of nourishment, to suppress or develop sex as they please.

The race has decided that sex shall not be allowed to exist except in just so far as it is absolutely necessary to the existence of the race.

Individuals with sex are tolerated only as necessary evils.

Here is an instance of the most powerful of all passions voluntarily suppressed for the benefit of the community at large.
It vanishes whenever unnecessary; when necessary after a war or a calamity of some kind, it is called into existence again.

Certainly it is not wonderful that such a fact should have set moralists thinking.