And, in the arithmetic of life, The smallest unit is a pair.

Each political unit is in this sense "an economy."

First, the New England type, in which the unit of government is the town or township; second, the Southern type, in which the unit is the county; and third, the Western system, in which the New England and Southern systems are combined.

In several southern and western states the administrative unit is the county, and local affairs are managed by county commissioners elected by the people.

"The subdivision of prakritic matter until we reach etheric atoms chemically united to make the physical unit" is the correct definition of an atom.

The primary and effective social and political unit is the "vill" or commune; that is to say, a group of families and individuals living in one neighbourhood, and of a size that would permit all the members to know one another if they wished to do so, and also the coming together of all those holding the electoral franchise, for common discussion and action.

For a nation to plant out large bodies of colonists on comparatively unoccupied lands, as in Africa or Australia or Canada, in a deliberate and organized fashion, with every facility towards co-operation and success, and yet on the principle of leaving, each colonial unit plenty of freedom and autonomy, would not be a very difficult task, nor a very expensive one, considering the end in view.

The political units they formed were tribal unions, not national states.

The unit of all ordinary kinds of writing is the word, and one is not commonly quarrelled with for using words that have belonged to other people.

The ordinary unit used by the Romans in reckoning considerable sums of money was 1,000 sesterces, which may accordingly be translated as the equivalent of (say) $50.

The unit of measure, as fixed by law, is estamos aquí, (here we are,) which is a mile and a half; hay no masita (a little less than nothing) is five miles; hay no mas (there is no more) is ten miles; and muy cerca (very near) is a hard day's journey.

It will be remembered, that at the meeting of the British Association at Southampton in 1882, the late Sir W. Siemens proposed that the unit of power should be the watt, and that the watt, which was derived from the C.G.S. system of absolute units, should in future, among electricians, be the unit of power.

The only stable and independent unit was the family.

As a rule, therefore, every unit in cane culture was also a unit in sugar manufacture.

The pari-mutuel system is that which is adopted at both the pallone courts in Florence (there is another at the Piazza Beccaria), and the unit is two lire.

Numerous recent agricultural surveys point to the conclusion that for general farming this unit is a comparatively large area of about 300 acres.

Thus, for example, work would be indicated by the letter W (initial of the word); the C.G.S. unit is the erg, which would be written without abbreviation, on account of its being short; and the practical units would be the kilogrammeter (kgm), the grammeter (gm), etc.

Almost every unit or division of government may become a borrower to provide for its citizens at once certain needed advantages and improvements when the funds are not at hand and immediate taxation is deemed too heavy a burden.

Provincial units are the largest subdivisions, as the American "states," or commonwealths, the German states, and the provinces in other countries.

The normal social unit is a group of families predominantly of the same race, territorially compact, of substantially the same ideals as expressed in religion and the philosophy of life, and sufficiently numerous to provide from within itself the major part of those things which are necessary to physical, intellectual and spiritual well-being.

In Further Spain the unit of area is the jugum, in Campania the versus, here in the Roman country and among the Latins it is the jugerum.

Local Government New England.#Here the unit of government is the township, or town, as it is usually called.

The true unit for comparison of farms is a centuria, which contains two hundred jugera, but if one deducts forty jugera, or one-sixth, from Cato's two hundred and forty jugera, I do not see how in applying this rule one can deduct also one-sixth of his thirteen slaves; or, even if we leave out the overseer and the housekeeper, how one can deduct one-sixth of eleven slaves.

But the unit of society in a republic is the individual, and not the race, the failure to recognize this fact being the fundamental error which has beclouded the whole discussion.

The tertiary unit is the state, which is a federation of the counties and cities forming some one of the historic divisions of the United States.