Excerpt from An Argument for More of the Division of Labour in Civil Life in This Country, Vol. 1: In Which the Argument Is Applied to Parliament

For ourselves, we profess to have no Measure to suggest, no mode of Proceeding to urge, that is of a nature to correct all the Wrong which in the working of our Social system discovers itself, but we entertain, and have long entertained, a most decided conviction, that in looking about for the sources of much of this Wrong, not one tithe of the weight is attached, that ought to be attached, to the very scanty degree of Organization, to the very little of Development - so to term it, which many of the Institutions or Arrangements of Civil life with us, have as yet attained to, or arrived at.

It is an attention to this particular, accordingly, that we wish to bespeak. It is some Amelioration - we would rather say, some Advance or forward Movement in this respect, that we are most anxious to have accomplished. And conceiving that prior to all positive progression here, if not as to a very considerable extent identical with it, there is nothing so indispensably requisite to be resorted to, as more of the grand principle of the Division Of Labour - it is a larger use, application, or enforcement, of that principle, that we propose most expressly or immediately to contend for.

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