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Updated: June 16, 2025
"A rare good way to get the stone out of a toad," he says, "is to put a... toad... into an earthen pot: put the same into an ant's hillocke, and cover the same with earth, which toad... the ants will eat, so that the bones... and stone will be left in the pot."
Darwin said the ant's brain was "one of the most marvelous atoms in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of man" yes, of present-day man, who for thousands and thousands of years has had so much more chance to develop his brain. . . .A thoughtful observer would have weighed all these excellent qualities. To our eyes they seem too orderly, for instance. Repressively so.
Laird had answered: "All right, sir; go ahead." "You begin by assuming that the human reason is the final test of all things. What right have you to assume that? Suppose you were an ant. You would take your ant's reason as the final test, wouldn't you? Would that be the truth?" And a smile had fixed itself on his lips above his little grave beard. George Laird also had smiled.
A second bomb had dropped clean upon one of the larger houses, and exploding on the flat roof had scattered the whole building as a man's foot might scatter an ant's nest. With a roar half the house toppled outwards into the street, blocking it completely. 'Fine! Oh, fine! cried Roy. 'That chap knows his business. Gee, but I wish we were alongside him. 'Much use that would be!
"I can't stand this any longer," at length he exclaimed, and shooting out of bed, walked up and down the room, scratching and fuming as if he had just escaped from an ant's nest.
It appeared to be composed, on examination, of dead leaves, stones, earth, and rotten wood, and sticks of all sorts indeed, every variety of rubbish. At first I thought it might possibly be an ant's nest, as I had read of the curious buildings formed by those creatures. I had begun on one side; but Oliver went to the very top, and began digging away.
"I know one, sure enough the most charming one!" said one of the ants; "but I am afraid we shall hardly succeed, for she is a queen!" "That is nothing!" said the old folks; "has she a house?" "She has a palace!" said the ant "the finest ant's palace, with seven hundred passages!"
"That can be nothing more than his ghost," said Tom soberly, "for Ruth retrieved at least half of the ant's bodily presence." "You'll give us all the fidgets if you keep on wriggling, Jennie," declared Aunt Kate. "Well, I don't want to sit on the grass in a woodsy place again while we are on this journey," sighed Jennie. "Ugh! I always did hate creepy things."
We have a military clique headed by a personal and sadly irresponsible ruler; we have a vulgar and much swollen commercial class; and then, besides these two, we have a huge ant's nest of professors and students, a large population of intelligent and well-trained factory workers, and a vast residuum of peasants.
"That is nothing!" said the old folks. "Has she a house?" "She has a palace!" said the ant. "The finest ant's palace, with seven hundred passages!" "I thank you!" said Mother Snail. "Our son shall not go into an ant-hill; if you know nothing better than that, we shall give the commission to the white gnats.
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