THE SOCIAL OEGAMSM. 



I olf/zua or JUTotluscoida. The Ascidian Mollusks, too, in 

 their many varied forms, show us the same tiling : exhibit 

 ing, at the same time, various degrees of union subsisting 

 among the component individuals. For while in the &.il]i&amp;lt;r. 

 the component individuals adhere so slightly that a blow on 

 the vessel of water in which they are floating will separate 

 them ; in the Jiotrylltihe there exists a vascular connexion 

 between them, and a common circulation. 



Now in these various forms and degrees of aggregation, 

 may we not see paralleled the union of groups of connate 

 tribes into nations? Though in regions where circum 

 stances permit, the separate, tribes descended from some 

 original tribe, migrate in all directions, and become far re 

 moved and oolite separate ; yet, in other cases, where the 

 territory presents barriers to distant migration, this does 

 not happen : the small kindred communities are held in 

 closer contact, and eventually become more or less united 

 into a nation. The contrast between the tribes of Ameri 

 can Indians and the Scottish elans, illustrates this. And a 

 glance at our own early history, or the early histories of 

 continental nations, shows this fu.-ion of small simple com 

 munities taking place in various ways and to various extents. 

 As says M. (luizot, in his history of The Origin of Hi-p 

 resent at ive Government,&quot; 



P.y degrees, in the midst of the oliao.-; of tho rising HOI iety, 

 small aggregations are form. :! uliirh feel tlie want of alliance and 

 union with each other. . . . S&amp;gt;&amp;gt;.u ine itiality of strength is 

 display i d among neighbouring aggregations. The strong tend to 

 8iil&amp;gt;jngatc the weak, and UMirp at fir.-t the rights of taxation ami 

 military service. Thus political authority leaves the aggregations 

 v. hich first instituted it, to take a wider range.&quot; 



That is to say, the small tribes, elans, or feudal unions, 

 sprung mostly from a common stock, and long held in con 

 tact as occupants of adjacent lands, gradually get united iu 

 other ways than by mere adhesion of race and proximity. 



