Origen

“ And since he asserts that, “when ants die, the survivors set apart a special place (for their interment) , and that their ancestral sepulchres such a place is,” we have to answer, that the greater the laudations which he heaps upon irrational animals, so much the more does he magnify (although against his will) the work of that reason which arranged all things in order, and points out the skill [1] which exists among men, and which is capable of adorning by its reason even the gifts which are bestowed by nature on the irrational creation. ”