“The post-Freudians … have fallen victim to the ravages of the intellectual division of labor.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 58
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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 74

“Nature repairs her ravages, — repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor.”
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Context: Nature repairs her ravages, — repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor. The desolation wrought by that flood had left little visible trace on the face of the earth, five years after. The fifth autumn was rich in golden cornstacks, rising in thick clusters among the distant hedgerows; the wharves and warehouses on the Floss were busy again, with echoes of eager voices, with hopeful lading and unlading.
And every man and woman mentioned in this history was still living, except those whose end we know.

“Division of labor is a justification for sloth.”
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 79
“Slaving gave rise to a division of labor”
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 7, The Slave Trade, p. 229.
Context: Slaving gave rise to a division of labor in which the business of capture, maintenance, and overland transport of slaves was in African hands, while Europeans took charge of transoceanic transport, the "seasoning" or breaking in of slaves, and their eventual distribution.

“Answers determined by the social division of labor become truth as such.”
Source: Eclipse of Reason (1947), p. 50: Describing the pragmatist view

“Every quantity is intellectually conceivable as infinitely divisible.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Source: Principles of industrial organization, 1913, p. 37

Source: Principles of industrial organization, 1913, p. 48
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 26