ABSTRACT

The Family is the smallest of all the modes of co-operative unity, and in some respects the most primitive; but it is probably never altogether independent of larger groups within which it is included. Usually those living in close proximity tend to intermarry among themselves; though sometimes the men prefer to capture their wives from neighbouring tribes to form co-operative groups. Religion plays a large part in human life everywhere. Different types of religion, but only to indicate briefly its place in the life of the community. The subject has since been more fully discussed by Professor R. M. MacIver, especially in his works on Community and The Modern State. It is convenient to use this term to characterize a community of a more comprehensive kind than most nations and including some diversity of races. The term was applied to the British dominions under Cromwell, mainly, no doubt, because they could not be described as kingdoms.