Excerpt from The Struggle for Existence Primitive communism is, so far as we can learn, unmarked by any form of class slavery or servitude. This may be considered to be due to the fact that hunting and fishing - the principle ways 01 etting a living - were pursuits in which the emp oyment of slaves or captive workers would have been, for obvious reasons, a matter of great difficulty, if not of absolute impossibility. The communal clans sometimes took prisoners in their tribal wars, and, doubtless, if they ocula have seen any way to make anything out of these cap tives they would have done so. As it was, how ever, no such way being open they, it appears, generally served them (the prisoners as the piece de resistance at a cannibal banquet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.