The Life of the Ant

Excerpt from The Life of the Ant Since then, returning on my steps, I have realized that in respect of the ant - as indeed in respect of everything on earth - while we think we know everything we really know hardly any thing; and the little that we do learn tells us, at all events, how much remains to be learned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.