Can someone explain and analyze this sentence from David Hume's 'A Treatise of Human

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Nature' please??? Thanks!? Hume said:
'Two men who pull the oars of a boat, do it by an agreement or convention, tho' they have never given promises to each other. Nor is the rule concerning the stability of possession the less derived from human conventions, that it arises gradually, and acquires force by a slow progression..."
I don't get the word "the less" in the second sentence. What is "the less" referring to?
 
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