But it does not need a sense of duty, it does not need religion.

Its life is religion in the practical sense.

Probably millions of years ago the ant had feelings much more like our own than it has now.

At that time, to perform altruistic actions may have been painful to the ant; to perform them now has become the one pleasure of its existence.

In order to bring up children and serve the state more efficiently these insects have sacrificed their sex and every appetite that we call by the name of animal passion.