In the English translation of Oswald Spengler's *Decline of the West* that I'm reading, they use the word *ant-industry*. I tried to google it and also used online dictionaries but found no answer to the meaning of this word. I'm guessing it is some kind of composite but something like *anti industry* doesn't really make sense to me in the context. The full sentence is

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> All genuine historical work is philosophy, unless it is mere
>  **ant-industry**.
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More context can be found on [google books](http://books.google.se/books?id=jYjYLoGSsQgC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=%22mere%20ant%20industry%22&source=bl&ots=0Gg-F1DhEB&sig=aE7jdZVyzpkmsiVQMedeKr5x1vY&hl=sv&sa=X&ei=KV31ULfsBNDAswb_pYHABg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22ant%20industry%22&f=false).