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their individualities as are implied by interdicts on exchange 

 or impediments to exchange. 



With the spread of industrialism, therefore, the tendency 

 is towards the breaking down of the divisions between 

 nationalities, and the running through them of a common 

 organization : if not under a single government, then under 

 a federation of governments. 



573. Such being the constitution of the industrial type 

 of society to be inferred from its requirements, we have now 

 to inquire what evidence is furnished by actual societies 

 that approach towards this constitution accompanies the 

 progress of industrialism. 



As, during the peopling of the Earth, the struggle for ex 

 istence among societies, from small hordes up to great 

 nations, has been nearly everywhere going on ; it is, as before 

 said, not to be expected that we should readily find examples 

 of the social type appropriate to an exclusively industrial 

 life. Ancient records join the journals of the day in proving 

 that thus far no civilized or semi-civilized nation has fallen 

 into circumstances making needless all social structures for 

 resisting aggression ; and from every region travellers ac 

 counts bring evidence that almost universally among the 

 uncivilized, hostilities between tribes are chronic. Still, a 

 few examples exist which show, with tolerable clearness, the 

 outline of the industrial type in its rudimentary form the 

 form which it assumes where culture has made but little pro 

 gress. We will consider these first ; and then proceed to 

 disentangle the traits distinctive of the industrial type as 

 exhibited by large nations which have become predominantly 

 industrial in their activities. 



Among the Indian hills there are many tribes belonging to 

 different races, but alike in their partially-nomadic habits. 

 Mostly agricultural, their common practice is to cultivate a 

 patch of ground while it yields average crops, and when it is 

 exhausted to go elsewhere ar d repeat the process. They have 



