Page:The Native Races of the Pacific States, volume 2.djvu/75

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COOPERATION AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR.
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seen, until war and despotism and superstition and other dire evils come, there is no progress. Solitude is insupportable, even beasts will not live alone; and men are more dependent on each other than beasts. Solitude carries with it a sense of inferiority and insufficiency; the faculties are stinted, lacking completeness, whereas volume is added to every individual faculty by union.