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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ter of his father outside the family, in the state. Political had at least begun to grow away from domestic authority. 46. Summary. ?It will be possible to set forth the nature of these changes more distinctly when discussing Greek and Roman institutions at length in the next chapter. Enough has been said here to make plain the approaches to those systems of government with which we are familiar in the modern world. We can understand how custom crystallized about the primitive man; how in the case of the majority of mankind it preserved itself against all essential change; how with the favored minority of the race it was broken by war, altered by imperative circumstance, modified by imitation, and infringed by individual initiative; how change resulted in progress; and how, at lust, kinsmen became fellow-citizens. Additional Authorities On Primitive Society. Bagehot, Walter, Physics and Politics; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society. Spencer, Herbert, Ceremonial Institutions, and Political Institutions. Tylor, E. G., Early History of Mankind, and Primitive Culture. Maine, Sir H. S., Early History of Institutions, and Village Communities in the East and West. chapter{{Section 4III. THE GOVERNMENTS OF GREECE AND ROME. 47. The Evolution of Government. ? At no one of the various stages of their development may we photograph the ancient classical governments and say that we have an adequate picture of Greek or Roman political practice. We cannot speak of the governments of Greece and Rome instructively except as evolutions. Their history is of course never complete at any one period. Moreover, each stage of their development illuminates the processes which we have just ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217398121 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021739812X |
| Weight | 1.69 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.17 In |
| List Price | $31.36 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 526 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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