ABSTRACT
Man is a social animal and he has always found it to his advantage to work in co-operation with his fellows. By what is sometimes called simple co-operation, i.e., when several people unite in performing the same task, labour is lightened and impossible tasks become possible. Several men hauling a rope can remove an obstruction which one man alone could not. Such a simple co-operation is also extremely useful when it is important for a task to be quickly completed, such as getting in crops before rain. But the advantages of simple co-operation are compara tively limited ; it is from complex co-operation, generally known as division of labour, that the chief fruits of man’s social qualities are reaped.
