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All cases of Communion are parts, so to say, of the great Social

one, since in them men associate with a view to some advantage

and to procure some of those things which are needful for life;

and the great Social Communion is thought originally to have been

associated and to continue for the sake of some advantage: this

being the point at which legislators aim, affirming that to be

just which is generally expedient.

All the other cases of Communion aim at advantage in particular

points; the crew of a vessel at that which is to result from the

voyage which is undertaken with a view to making money, or some

such object; comrades in war at that which is to result from the

war, grasping either at wealth or victory, or it may be a

political position; and those of the same tribe, or Demus, in

like manner.