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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: II. THE PROBABLE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT. 25. The Beginnings of Government. ? Government must have had substantially the same early history amongst all progressive races. It must have begun in clearly defined family discipline. Such discipline would scarcely be possible among races in which consanguinity was subject to profound confusion and in which family discipline therefore had no clear basis of authority on which to rest. In every case, it would seem, the origination of what we would deem government must have awaited the development of some such definite family as that in which the father was known, and known as ruler. Whether or not, therefore, the patriarchal family was the first form of the family, it must have furnished the first adequate form of government. 26. The Family the Primal Unit. ? The family, then, was the primal unit of political society, and the seed-bed of all larger growths of government. The individuals that were drawn together to constitute the earliest communities were not individual men, as Locke and Locke's co-theorists would lead us to believe, but individual families, and the organization of these families, whether singly or in groups, furnished the ideas in which political society took its root. We have already seen what the nature of that organization was. The members of each family were bound together by kinship. The father's authority bore the single sanction of his being thefountain-head of the common blood-relationship. No other bond was known, or was then conceivable, but this single bond of kinship. A man out of the circle of kinship was outside the boundaries of possible friendship, was as of course an alien and an enemy. 27. Persistence of the Idea of Kinship. ? When society grew, it grew without any change of this idea....
| ISBN-13 | 9780217897181 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217897185 |
| Weight | 1.69 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.18 In |
| List Price | $32.38 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 528 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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