ABSTRACT
In primitive economics, more or less strongly developed features of communal economics occur everywhere. But this communal system is only applied to the obtaining of food, while articles of daily use, tools, and ornaments are generally left to the ownership of individuals or families. As we have seen, the line to be drawn between private or family economics and collective economics in the political group varies greatly in individual tribes and cultures. Expansion in primitive economics is governed by similar conditions. Conquest, as understood in higher cultures, is unknown, owing to the comparatively large space available for living, and subjection, in our sense of the word, is equally unknown. While hunting tribes are on the whole comparatively peaceable, such combats as we observed among the hoe cultivating tribes and less advanced herdsmen, are principally connected with the prosecution of blood and other feuds, but do not involve any idea of economic or political expansion.
