Excerpt from The Economic Causes of WarA striking fact now presents itself The workers, thus forced to associate in the labor of production, did not necessarily belong to one and the same political and social group, on the contrary, the very composition of primitive so cieties compelled men, originally belonging to difierent tribes, to unite for the purpose of a common production. This peculiar circumstance was due to two fundamental institutions of primitive humanity, the matmarchate and exogamy, the former of which made the woman the nucleus Of the family as well as its governor, while the second compelled her to take her mate from without her own tribe. It therefore fol lows that the family group, within which the association Of labor first arose, was composed, on the one hand, of a number of women belonging to the same tribe, or to the same matriarchal nucleus, and, on the other, of a number Of men their husbands - who were members originally.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.