| Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...conjecture. It is full, in all its provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection...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
...conjecture. It is full, in all its provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection...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
...conjecture. It is full in all its provinces of the clearest indications that society m primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present — a...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 - 1834 - 484 pages
...conjecture. It is full, in all its provinces, of the clearest indications that society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection...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... | |
| Archaeology - 1868 - 346 pages
...in the social history of mankind ; as a great modern writer 1 has said, " Society in primitive times was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection...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... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - Business ethics - 1869 - 516 pages
...that society in primitive times " was not what it assumed to be at present, a collec- LEOT- IL " tion of individuals. In fact, and in the view of " the...aggregation " of families. The contrast may be most forcibly Contrast \ " expressed by saying that the unit of an ancient earlier and I, ... i -ii -i ^ i • later... | |
| Victoria Claflin Woodhull - Social sciences - 1871 - 282 pages
...and become identical therewith. Mr. Maine says, in his "Ancient Law," that "society in ancient times was not what it is assumed to be at present — a collection of individuals. In fact, and in view of the men that composed it, it was an aggregation of families. The contrast may be best and most... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1871 - 690 pages
...conjecture. It is full, in all its provinces, of the clearest indications that society, in primitive times, was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection of individ'ials. In fact, and in the view of the men who composed it, it was an nggnyatiori of fiimilitt.... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - Social ethics - 1872 - 444 pages
..."Archaic Law is full, in all its provinces, of the "clearest indications that society in primitive times "was not what it is assumed to be at present, a collection...the "men who composed it, it was an aggregation of fami" lies. The contrast may be most forcibly expressed by "saying that the unit of an ancient society... | |
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