A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 94

This evolution has been the result of man you/he/she is increasing on control
nature. In the pastoral stage he takes some production of nature,
providing few or nothing him. In the agricultural stage him
it manipulates the ground and it subjugates him/it, he bridles the wind and the
brooks to grind his/her corn, and to water his/her earth;  Providence can have
put all the things under his/her feet, but he takes long to discover them
use and the means to use them. In the commercial and industrial stages
he assumes the wind and water, vapor and the electricity for transport,,
communications and products. But he can only develop this dominion
from the interdependent trials of specialization, co-operation, and
expansion. A solitary shepherd can live on his/her flocks without help;  a
the only family can provide for his/her his/her own agricultural existence and the
normal equity holding of the family English and primitive, the "hideaway" as it was
called, it was an action in all the means of the maintenance, corn-earth really,
pasture-earth, rights of ground of common ownership and penetrating wood. This family
independence along it survived, and house-plotting, house-cooking house to the oven,-
washing, even now it is not extinct. Every family in the primitive village
it did all for him. When its necessities and standard of comfort grew,
installations increased over the course of the individual family were
provided that from the gentleman of the feud, as, for example, a mill, a
bakehouse, a wine-press. Indeed, the possession of these things is able
you/he/she has helped him in the dominion of the feud. Certainly, some of them
you/he/she is mentioned in the first Anglo-Saxon days among the qualifications for
thegnhood, and when the gentleman possessed these things, he said a
monopoly;  his/her tenants were tied up to grind their corn to his/her mill, and
this way before. But there were things that he has not desired to do, and an inhabitant of a village
here and there it started to specialize himself/herself/themselves in such works as the blacksmith blacksmith,