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-j6 Böckh on population <strong>of</strong> Attica; Schoemann on principalities; Theseus a realperson; Phantasie des Plutarch.76-7 Interessenconflict77 Germ <strong>of</strong> county?78 Bekamen entscheidende Macht; Plutarch falsch; Settlers Griechen79 Eigenthumsdifferenz; Schoemann contra Morgan regarding topic phyles80 Attic tribes81 Schoemann reference84 Clan-Geschlechter in Mommsen. Analogy I87 Tribun = tribal chief. Conjectur89 Contra Livy (Kerl vergisst...); Superlativ dies.90 Clients as plebs: Niebuhr right as against Morgan91 Bürger des Romulus (Plutarch on Numa)94 Mutterzunge - Fa<strong>the</strong>rland. Reference to Curtius, quoted in Morgan95 Bach<strong>of</strong>en: spurious (I) children; lawless (!) union; unilateres in male line(cf. Morgan, p. 360).great family = Geschlechtsfamilie = gens.96 Bach<strong>of</strong>en on lawlessness0 Perhaps: Achille Loria, La rendita fondiaria e la sua elisone naturale. Milano, 1880.6 See below, Morgan excerpts, note 160.c Reference to George Grote. On Grote’s relations to Bentham, J. S. Mill and <strong>the</strong> utilitarians,cf. Elie Halevy, The Growth <strong>of</strong> Philosophical Radicalism (1928) 1955.d See below, Section 7, Relation <strong>of</strong> Engels to Marx and Morgan.Marx differed from Morgan chiefly over details (excerpts, pp. 1, 2, 20,21, 24, 26, 77, 84, 90); basic matters (excerpts, pp. 26, 38, 48, 76-79) asprivate ownership in Homer, hereditary transmission <strong>of</strong> chieftainships,<strong>the</strong> questions <strong>of</strong> conflict <strong>of</strong> interests in <strong>the</strong> dissolution <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> gens, andproperty differences in <strong>the</strong> same condition, on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand, weredeveloped ra<strong>the</strong>r as Marx’s own expressions.Marx completed <strong>the</strong> excerpts and notetaking at Pt. II, ch. X V <strong>of</strong>Morgan. After covering <strong>the</strong> beginning <strong>of</strong> that chapter, he copied outpassages from Tacitus, Germania and Caesar, Gallic War, <strong>the</strong>re given,added <strong>the</strong> fur<strong>the</strong>r passages from classical authors, including <strong>the</strong> referencesfrom <strong>the</strong> Lipsius ed. <strong>of</strong> Tacitus (excerpts, pp. 96-98), and brought <strong>the</strong>Morgan notes to an end.Marx called into question Morgan’s statement, “Mankind are <strong>the</strong> onlybeings who may be said to have gained an absolute (?!) control over <strong>the</strong>production <strong>of</strong> food__ ” (Marx’s interpolation, excerpts, p. 2).29 Accordingto Morgan, cultivation <strong>of</strong> cereals preceded <strong>the</strong> migration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>Aryan peoples from <strong>the</strong> grass plains <strong>of</strong> high Asia to <strong>the</strong> forest <strong>of</strong> WestAsia and Europe, and this culture was forced upon <strong>the</strong>m by <strong>the</strong> necessities<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> domesticated animals now incorporated into <strong>the</strong>ir plan <strong>of</strong> life.Marx (excerpts, p. 24) suggested that this was not <strong>the</strong> case among <strong>the</strong>Celts.27 Morgan, on <strong>the</strong> authority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Iliad, noted <strong>the</strong>re <strong>the</strong> referenceto fences, and on this evidence attributed private land ownership to13

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