Of course if a human community could discover some secret way of effecting the same object, and could have the courage to do it, or rather the unselfishness to do it, the result would simply be that sexual immorality of any kind would become practically impossible The very idea of such immorality would cease to exist.
But that is only one fact of self-suppression and the ant-world furnishes hundreds.

To state the whole thing in the simplest possible way, let me say the race has entirely got rid of everything that we call a selfish impulse.

Even hunger and thirst allow of no selfish gratification.

The entire life of the community is devoted to the common good and to mutual help and to the care of the young.

Spencer says it is impossible to imagine that an ant has a sense of duty like our own,--a religion, if you like.