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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: odious an instinct as that of making slaves. Hence I will give the
observations which I have myself made, in some little detail. I opened
fourteen nests of F. sanguinea, and found a few slaves in all. Males and
fertile females of the slave-species are found only in their own proper
communities, and have never been observed in the nests of F. sanguinea.
The slaves are black and not above half the size of their red masters, so
that the contrast in their appearance is very great. When the nest is
slightly disturbed, the slaves occasionally come out, and like their
masters are much agitated and defend their nest: when the nest is much
disturbed and the larvae and pupae are exposed, the slaves work
energetically with their masters in carrying them away to a place of
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