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Popular Government: Four Essays - Page 134
by Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 261 pages
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...concerned, and nothing is more remarkable than their extreme fewness. In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators; but, except in a small section of the world, there has...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...concerned, and nothing is more remarkable than their extreme fewness. In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators; but, except in a small section of the world, there has...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE - Comparative law - 1861 - 434 pages
...cerned, and nothing is more remarkable than their extreme fewness. In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe...embodiment in some permanent record. One set of usages has occaCHAP. ii. STATIONARY AND PROGRESSIVE SOCIETIES. 23 sionally been violently overthrown and superseded...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1834 - 484 pages
...surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. The tone of thought common among us, all GUI hopes, fears, and speculations, would be materially...another; here and there a primitive code, pretending to supernatural origin, has been greatly extended, ani distorted into the most surprising forms, by the...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1867 - 494 pages
...It is indisputable that much the greatest part of mankind has never shown a particle of desire thatj its civil institutions should be improved since the...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1870 - 434 pages
...concerned, and nothing is more remarkable than their extreme fewness. In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of Western Europe...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators; but, except in a small section of the world, there has...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1870 - 482 pages
...tone of thought common among us, all our hopes, fears, and speculations, would be materially aifected, if we had vividly before us the relation of the progressive...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has...
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Tradition: Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations

John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - Bible and science - 1872 - 476 pages
...human life. It ia indisputable thas much the greatest part of mankind has never shown a particular desire that its civil institutions should be improved...them by their embodiment in some permanent record There has been a material civilisation, but instead of the civilisation expanding the law, the law...
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Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations

John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - Natural law - 1872 - 476 pages
...particular desire that its civil institutions should be improved since the moment when ex-, ternal completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record There has been a material civilisation, but instead of the civilisation expanding the law, the law...
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Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its ...

Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1864 - 484 pages
...if we had vividly before us the relation of the progressive races to the totality of human life. Ft is indisputable that much the greatest part of mankind...another; here and there a primitive code, pretending to supernatural origin, has been greatly extended, am distorted into the most surprising forms, by the...
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