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...