Why does God instruct us to observe a specific portion of the insect world?
Prov. 6:6. William Beebe gives a colorful description of an army ant brigade at work in a hole in the jungle sand of Guiana: “This mob consisted of potential corduroy, rope-bridges, props, hand-rails, lattices, screens, filler, stiles, ladders, and other unnameable adjuncts to the successful scaling of these apparently impregnable cliffs. If a stratum of hard sand appeared, on which no impression could be made, a line of ants strung themselves out, each elaborately fixing himself fast by means of jaws and feet. From that moment his feverish activity left him: he became a fixture, a single unit of a swaying bridge over a chasm; a beam, an organic plank, over which his fellows tramped by hundreds, some empty, some heavily laden. If a sudden ascent had to be made, one ant joined himself to others to form a hanging ladder, up which the columns climbed, partly braced against the sandy wall.” Jungle Peace (New York, N.Y.: The Modem Library, 1920), p. 222. The ultimate origin of such remarkab
