Lewis Henry Morgan
Ancient Society
Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664649928
Table of Contents
PART I. - GROWTH OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.
CHAPTER I. - ETHNICAL PERIODS.
CHAPTER II. - ARTS OF SUBSISTENCE.
CHAPTER III. - RATIO OF HUMAN PROGRESS.
PART II. - GROWTH OF THE IDEA OF GOVERNMENT.
CHAPTER I. - ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY UPON THE BASIS OF SEX.
CHAPTER II. - THE IROQUOIS GENS.
CHAPTER III. - THE IROQUOIS PHRATRY.
CHAPTER IV. - THE IROQUOIS TRIBE.
CHAPTER V. - THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY.
CHAPTER VI. - GENTES IN OTHER TRIBES OF THE GANOWÁNIAN FAMILY.
CHAPTER VII. - THE AZTEC CONFEDERACY.
CHAPTER VIII. - THE GRECIAN GENS.
CHAPTER IX. - THE GRECIAN PHRATRY, TRIBE AND NATION.
CHAPTER X. - THE INSTITUTION OF GRECIAN POLITICAL SOCIETY.
CHAPTER XII. - THE ROMAN CURIA, TRIBE AND POPULUS.
CHAPTER XIII. - THE INSTITUTION OF ROMAN POLITICAL SOCIETY.
CHAPTER XIV. - CHANGE OF DESCENT FROM THE FEMALE TO THE MALE LINE.
CHAPTER XV. - GENTES IN OTHER TRIBES OF THE HUMAN FAMILY.
PART III. - GROWTH OF THE IDEA OF THE FAMILY.
CHAPTER I. - THE ANCIENT FAMILY.
CHAPTER II. - THE CONSANGUINE FAMILY.
CHAPTER III. - THE PUNALUAN FAMILY.
CHAPTER IV. - THE SYNDYASMIAN AND THE PATRIARCHAL FAMILIES.
CHAPTER V. - THE MONOGAMIAN FAMILY.
CHAPTER VI. - SEQUENCE OF INSTITUTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE FAMILY.
NOTE. - MR. J. F. McLENNAN’S “PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE.”
PART IV. - GROWTH OF THE IDEA OF PROPERTY.
CHAPTER I. - THE THREE RULES OF INHERITANCE.
CHAPTER II. - THE THREE RULES OF INHERITANCE—CONTINUED.
PART I. - GROWTH OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.
ANCIENT SOCIETY
CHAPTER I. - ETHNICAL PERIODS.
Progress of Mankind from the Bottom of the Scale.—Illustrated by Inventions Discoveries and Institutions.—Two Plans of Government—one Gentile and Social, giving a Society, (Societas); the other Political, giving a State, (Civitas).—The former founded upon Persons and Gentilism; the latter upon Territory and Property.—The First, the Plan of Government of Ancient Society.—The Second, that of Modern or Civilized Society.—Uniformity of Human Experience.—Proposed Ethnical Periods—I. Lower Status of Savagery; II. Middle Status of Savagery; III. Upper Status of Savagery; IV. Lower Status of Barbarism; V. Middle Status of Barbarism; VI. Upper Status of Barbarism; VII. Status of Civilization.
The latest investigations respecting the early condition of the human race, are tending to the conclusion that mankind commenced their career at the bottom of the scale and worked their way up from savagery to civilization through the slow accumulations of experimental knowledge.
As it is undeniable that portions of the human family have existed in a state of savagery, other portions in a state of barbarism, and still other portions in a state of civilization, it seems equally so that these three distinct conditions are connected with each other in a natural as well as necessary sequence of progress. Moreover, that this sequence has been historically true of the entire human family, up to the status attained by each branch respectively, is rendered probable by the conditions under which all progress occurs, and by the known advancement of several branches of the family through two or more of these conditions.
An attempt will be made in the following pages to bring forward additional evidence of the rudeness of the early condition of mankind, of the gradual evolution of their mental and moral powers through experience, and of their protracted