Moreover they have a perfect community, a society in which nobody could think of property, except as a state affair, a public thing, or as the Romans would say a _res publica_.

In a human community so organized, there could not be ambition, any jealousy, any selfish conduct of any sort--indeed, no selfishness at all.

The individual is said to be practically sacrificed for the sake of the race; but such a supposition means the highest moral altruism.

Therefore thinkers have to ask, "Will man ever rise to something like the condition of ants ?" Herbert Spencer says that such is the evident tendency.

He does not say, nor is it at all probable, that there will be in future humanity such physiological specialization as would correspond to the suppression of sex among ants, or to the bringing of women to the dominant place in the human world, and the masculine sex to an inferior position.