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originally hereditary in the gens and elective among its members, passed, verylikely, unter Grecian·and Roman tribes vo n father to son as a rule. A b er29 kein evidence, dass so b y hereditary right. | D . blosse possession jedochder offices o f archony phylo-basileus or βασιλεύς unter d. Griechen, u. v.princeps u. rex unter d. Römern, hatte Tendenz to strengthen in theirfamilies the sentiment o f aristocracy. O bgleich es permanent existencegewann, nicht stark genug to change essentially the democratic constitution o fthe early governments o f these tribes.H eutzutag, w o property so immense u. seine forms so diversified, it hasbecom e, on the part o f the people, an unmanageable power. “ The human mindstands bewildered in the presence o f its own creation. T he time w ill come,nevertheless, when human intelligence w ill rise to the mastery over property. . . A mere property career is not the fin al destiny o f mankind. T he time whichhas passed away since civilisation began is but a fragm ent (u. SFar se^r kleines')o f the past duration o f man’s existence; and but a fragment o f the ages y etto come. The dissolution o f society bids fa ir to become the termination o f a careero f which property is the end and aim; because such a career contains the elementso f self-destruction. . . It (a higher plan o f society) w ill be a revival, in a higherform , o f the liberty, equality and fraternity o f the ancient gentes.” (552)“ W ith one principal o f intelligence and one physical form , in virtue o f acom m on origin, the results o f human experience have been substantiallythe same in a ll times and areas in the same ethnical status.” (552)P art I I (Growth o f the Idea o f Government)C h. I. Organisation o f Society upon the Basis o f sex.Organisation into male and fem ale classes (also organisation upon the basis o f sex)now found in full vitality am ong the Australian aborigenes. L o w dow n in“ "savagery, community o f husbands and women, 9 2 w ithin prescribed lines,I was the central principle o f the social system; the m arital rights (Juraconjugalia) [Romans distinguish: connubiumy related to marriage as a civilinstitution, u. conjugiumy the mere physical union)\ established in the group.] Em ancipation vo n diesen “ rights” etc slow ly accomplished dch movementsresulting in unconscious reformations; “ worked out unconsciously through naturalselection.]In D arling River district - north o f Sydney - die nachfolgende organisationinto classes on the basis o f sex and the inchoate organisation into gentes on thebasis o f kin unter d. A ustralian aborigines speaking the Kamilaroi language.W ide spread selbiges unter other Australian tribes; evident from internalconsiderations that the male u. fem ale classes older than the gentes, die, am ongthe K am ilaroi, are in process o f overthrowing the classes. T h e class in its maleandfemale branches is the unit o f the social system u. the central position, w hd d.gentes inchoate u. advancing to completeness through encroachments upon*39