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everywhere and sending threads everywhere, so brings into 

 relation all activities, that any considerable change in one 

 sends reverberating changes among all the rest. From those 

 far past days when flint-scrapers were used to shape clubs, 

 the cooperation of appliances, then commenced, has been 

 increasing, at the same time that the cooperation of workers 

 has been increasing; until now the tools as well as the men 

 form an aggregate of mutually dependent parts. Progress 

 here, as everywhere, has been from incoherent homogeneity 

 to coherent heterogeneity. 



Blind to the significance of the innumerable facts sur 

 rounding them, multitudes of men assert the need for 

 the &quot; organization of labour.&quot; Actually they suppose that 

 at present labour is unorganized. All these marvellous 

 specializations and these endlessly ramifying connections, 

 which have age by age grown up since the time when the 

 members of savage tribes carried on each for himself the 

 same occupations, are non-existent for them; or if they 

 recognize a few of them, they do not perceive that these 

 form but an infinitesimal illustration of the whole. 



A fly seated on the surface of the body has about as good 

 a conception of its internal structure, as one of these 

 schemers has of the social organization in which he is im 

 bedded. 



