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Notes to Introduction, pp. 48-51.90 Morgan, op. cit., pp. 68, 88, 90, 104, 123, 152, 221, 237,278 (territory), 287 (polity).91 Ibid., pp. 88, 177, 246, 287, 313 and passim.92 Ibid., pp. 246, 266.93 Ibid., p. 240.94 Ibid., p. 249.95 Ibid., p. 281.96 Ibid., p. 444.97 Engels, Origin, op. cit., pp. 27f.98 Morgan, op. cit., p. 92: assumed.99 Otto Gierke, Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht. 4 V., 1868-1913.100 Joseph Needham, The Sceptical Biologist, 1929. See also id., A Biologist’sView <strong>of</strong> Whitehead’s Philosophy. The Philosophy <strong>of</strong> A . N . Whitehead.P. Schilpp, ed. 1941, pp. 247-248.101 R. H. Lowie, Primitive Society, 1947, pp. 257, 338, 390.102 Fenton in Ethnology, op. cit. Morgan based his conception <strong>of</strong> politicallyorganized society upon territory and property; <strong>the</strong> organization<strong>of</strong> society upon relations purely personal preceded <strong>the</strong> politicalorganization in time. (Ancient Society, p. 6.) Morgan’s <strong>the</strong>oreticalframework possibly prevented his exploration <strong>of</strong> territorial groupingsin o<strong>the</strong>r than <strong>the</strong> political and civilized context.103 R. M. Maclver, The Modern State, 1926; cf. also id., Community, 1936.R. H. Lowie, Origin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State, 1927.104 F. W. Maitland, translating Otto Gierke, Political Theories <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> MiddleAge, 1900, and Ernest Barker, translating Gierke, Natural Law and<strong>the</strong> Theory <strong>of</strong> Society, 1950, rendered Genossenschaft as ‘association’,obscuring <strong>the</strong> developmental conception <strong>of</strong> Gierke, in which <strong>the</strong>yfollowed a usage <strong>of</strong> Gierke himself. (Gierke, Genossenschaftsrecht, I §1.)But Gierke, op. cit., p. 5, made a distinction: “Das Recht der deutschenGenossenschaft, nicht das Recht der deutschen Association überhaupt,soll zur Behandlung kommen. Unter ‘Genossenschaft’ im engstenund technischen Sinne wird... jede auf freier Vereinigung beruhendedeutschrechtliche Körperschaft, das heisst ein Verein mit selbständigerRechtspersönlichkeit, verstanden.” In <strong>the</strong> wider sense, <strong>the</strong> communitiesand <strong>the</strong> State fall within <strong>the</strong> concept <strong>of</strong> Genossenschaft.They also mean according to Gierke something more: in <strong>the</strong> earlyhistory <strong>of</strong> Germany, State and community have come partly out <strong>of</strong>raising <strong>the</strong> power (Potenzirung) <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Genossenschaft idea, partlyout <strong>of</strong> raising <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> its opposite. They have preservedGenossenschaft elements in different degrees according to <strong>the</strong> temporaldirection and developed <strong>the</strong>se. State and community, in adouble relation, in regard to <strong>the</strong>ir genesis as well as <strong>the</strong>ir structurefall within <strong>the</strong> representation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Genossenschaft. This is a dialecticthat is reduced to a system <strong>of</strong> mere temporal juxtapositions, butit is a dialectic none<strong>the</strong>less, wherein a development by negation andarticulation <strong>of</strong> oppositions is, however unclearly, set forth. Both376

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