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Notes to Morgan, pp. 183-198.here the difference in rank between consanguines comes into conflictwith the gentile principle, and can be petrified as its opposite, caste.There is an even greater significance to Marx’s note on caste in theMorgan excerpts : In Kapital Marx subsumed castes and guilds underthe order of nature in the early level of development; they arise ‘outof the same natural law that regulates the separation of plants andanimals into species and subspecies.’ He held that only when acertain grade of development has been attained is the hereditarymembership in a caste or the exclusiveness of a guild decreed as asocial law. The separation of the early caste organization from thelater, comprising the former within the order of nature, and the latterwithin the domain of action of social legislation, stands opposed toMarx’s conception of caste in the Morgan commentary. In the latterhe comprised the entire phenomenon of caste within the social order,leaving open the question of whether its establishment is unconsciouslyunfolded or consciously legislated. The likening of the earlystages of development of caste to phenomena of the order of natureis but an analogy ; it is less compatible with his general conceptions inthe Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts, the Holy Family, the GermanIdeology, and others of his writings in which the relations of man andnature were taken up, than is the formulation in the Morgan notebook.(See above, Introduction, section 1, on Morgan.)161 Morgan, op. cit., p. 180: Kolushes affiliate linguistically with theAthapascans, though not closely.162 Ms. : Bonnacks.163 Ms. : punaluan.164 Morgan: legend of their origin which he obtained at one of theirvillages, op. cit., p. 183.165 Morgan, p. 184: Great Mother.166 Ms. : die167 Ms.: deers.168 Ms. : it remains it.169 Ms.: Tepanicans.170 Ms. : pedegral.171 Ms.: bezetzt.172 Ms. : forages.173 Ms.: 3. Cf. Morgan, op. cit., p. 200.174 Ms. : 4 four.176 Ms. : Accosta.178 Montezuma had civil as well as military functions] crossed out.177 folgte] crossed out.178 Ms.: itst.179 Ms. : Pamphili.180 Ms.: Siccoyn, Sicyon.181 Morgan, op. cit., p. 227, citing G. Grote, History of Greece', factitious.182 “And yet who would have permitted persons having no connection404