This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. Division of Labour. There are two bonds by which men are united and collected into societies: one bond of union is the law of nature called gregariousness or sociality, by which men, like many other animals,, are impelled to seek the company of each other; the other bond of union is the principle termed the "Division of Labour," which impels men to associate together, on account of the mutual advantages enjoyed by the saving of labour. Barbarous men are united in societies by the former of these bonds alone; civilized men are united by both these bonds of society. It is hard to determine which of these two bonds is the stronger, in the existing civilized societies. It may, however, in this part of the work, be taken for granted, that the" " division of labour" is the only bond of union of political societies. The advantages attending the "division of labour," may be supposed to have been discovered in the following manner. On the discovery of agriculture, a society of hunters was probably dissolved, by each man fixing his abode on the spot of land which he cultivated for the subsistence of himself and family. The reason which induced the hunters to abandon their village, and break up their society, would be, that the labour of carrying the corn to their village might be saved, by each man residing on the spot where his corn grew. Each man will then have to labour on the land, and to manufacture his farming implements, his clothing, and his lodging: whilst such a state of things continues, it is manifest that all these arts will remain in the rudest state. But Nature has laid down laws for the perpetual improvement of the human race; and men cannot fail to be constantly adding to their knowledge, of the arts in particular. It will soon happen, t...