 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Man is a gregarious animal, not, like the ants and bees, by instinct, but in the main from a more or less obscure sense of collective self-interest. The largest social unit that has a firm instinctive basis is the family, ...
It may be presumed that the earliest communities were enlarged families, but the main source of all further social cohesion has been war. In war a large community may be expected to defeat a small one, and therefore any method of generating social cohesion in a large group is biologically advantageous.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 1
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