ant-republic

Updated: July 20, 2025

Furthermore, we must admit the reality of natural criteria of ethical values, established far below mankind in the scale of life. In an ant-republic, laws are instinctively obeyed quite as implicitly as though they were intelligibly proclaimed to all of the emmet citizens. Right is might when community battles with community, for right is that which is biologically favorable.

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope