SOLOMON’S ADVICE
“TO THE ANT, THOU . . WAS WRONG. PROFESSOR’S EXPOSURE. LONDON, September 16. Was Solomon wrong about the ants? Professor Julian Huxley, in a lecture at the British Association meeting on Saturday, said that Solomon’s injunction to “go to the ant, thou sluggard," was entirely wrong. Ants had many vices. They were addicted to drink. They had a mania for the sweet secretions of a certain type of beetle, and to obtain it they would go to any length. They would sacrifice their own offspring. “Some of them are also slavetraders. Others are nomad freebooters and carry on the lives of privateers.” Father A. English, who is a Bachelor of Science, in a sermon yesterday at the Roman Catholic Church of the Priory Cross, Leicester, said that Solomon did not intend to write a book about zoology.
What he said was: “Go to the ant if you want to see an example of industry," and, in Father English's opinion, he was right.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19632, 28 October 1933, Page 5
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