| Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection of individuals. In fact,...ancient society was the Family, of a modern society the Individual. We must be prepared to find in ancient law all the consequences of this difference. It... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection of individuals. In fact,...saying that the unit of an ancient society was the Fa/ mily, of a modern society the Individual. We must I be prepared to find in ancient law all the... | |
| Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE - Comparative law - 1861 - 434 pages
...provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection of individuals. In fact,...who composed it, it was an aggregation of families. I The contrast may be most forcibly expressed by saying that the unit of an ancient society was the... | |
| Law - 1862 - 720 pages
...provinces of the clearest indications that society m primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present — a collection of individuals. In fact,...most forcibly expressed by saying, that the unit of au ancient society was the family, — of a modern society, the individual.' But is it possible from... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1863 - 460 pages
...provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection of individuals. In fact,...ancient society was the Family, of a modern society the Individual. We must be prepared to find in ancient law all the consequences of this difference. It... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1834 - 484 pages
...provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection of individuals. In fact, and in the view of the men who composed it, it was cm aggregation of families. The contrast may be most forcibly expressed by Baying that the wnit of... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1867 - 494 pages
...indications that society in primitive times was notj what it is assumed to be at present, a collection off individuals. In fact, and in the view of the men who composed it, it was an aggregation of familic8.\ The contrast may be most forcibly expressed by saying that the unit of an ancient societywasthe... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 394 pages
...provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, — a collection of individuals. In fact,...ancient society was the Family; of a modern society, the Individual." — p. 121. '' It would be a very simple explanation of the origin of society, if we could... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 380 pages
...provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, — a collection of individuals. In fact,...ancient society was the Family; of a modern society, the Individual." — p. 121. " It would be a very simple explanation of the origin of society, if we could... | |
| Archaeology - 1868 - 346 pages
...as a great modern writer 1 has said, " Society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection of individuals ; in fact, and in the view of the men who formed it, it was an aggregation oí families." This is also strikingly illustrated in the history... | |
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