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Lewis Henry Morgan

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[Wikipedia] Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was an American anthropologist and social theorist, who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what hol

Quotes by Lewis Henry Morgan

The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy…

Lewis Henry Morgan

Children

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Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and…

Lewis Henry Morgan

Absolutes

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A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the…

Lewis Henry Morgan

Biology

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The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because…

Lewis Henry Morgan

Aim

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Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman

Lewis Henry Morgan

Capitalism

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The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Lewis Henry Morgan

Economy

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