Even boys and girls can work out moderately good answers, if they will approach the questions seriously and with a determination to get as near the root of the matter as possible.
Beginning without attempting an exact definition of government, because we all have a notion of what it is, we notice that only certain animals are government-forming.

Among these may be mentioned the ant, the bee, and man.

The fox, the bear, and the lion represent the other class.

If we should make two lists, including in one all the animals of the first class and in the other all those of the second class, we should make this discovery, that government-forming animals are those which by nature live together in companies, while the other class as a rule live apart.

The generalization reached is, that _only gregarious animals form governments_.