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When the civilizations will combine the old divisions of labour will disappear and a redistribution of labour will take place. Old tribes, which in manners, customs and life may be different from each other, will have different wants. The producers for those wants will also be different. For example, two tribes which differ from each other will have different classes of tailors. Sometimes some commodities are consumed by one tribe and not by another. In such a case the class which produces those commodities will become connected with one tribe and will have very little to do with the other. Under a unified civilization the life of the descendants of the two tribes will be alike, and this change will cause a new reorganization of the division of labour.

Another characteristic of the unified civilization is that there will be common aristocracy. We may say that common aristocracy is non-existent when some section of the people regards some class as social head, while another section may deny it or even go to the extent of regarding the political head of the community, or social head of a section of the community, as an infidel or an outcast. It is not necessary that the political and social heads should be the same. Two different authorities in these matters may exist in a perfectly integrated community, but their prestige should be recognized by all the tribes brought under one political system.

Thus to a perfect integration of the society distinctions of various character in the population are injurious. The principal ones of them are: –

1. Differences in the worship of the peoples, differences in their theology, and in such of their systems of thought