...by a common subjection to the highest male ascendant ; so that the history of political ideas begins with the assumption that kinship in blood is the sole...possible ground of community in political functions. The ascending scale was the collection of families termed the House ; the aggregation of Houses into...

...ancient societies regarded themselves as having proceeded from one original stock, and even laboured 1 under an incapacity for comprehending any reason except...holding together in political union. The history of ^gliticaHdeasJ)ejgins, in fact, with the assumption that kinship in blood is Jhe_sole possible ground...

...ancient societies regarded themselves is having proceeded from one original stock, and even laboured under an incapacity for comprehending any reason except this for their holding together in folitical union. The history of political ideas begins, in fact, with the assumption that kinship in...

...membership to be founded on common lineage:' " The history of political ideas," says the same writer, " begins in fact with the assumption that kinship in...there any of those subversions of feeling which we emphatically term revolutions, so startling and so complete as the change which is accomplished when...

...membership to be founded on common lineage." " The history of political ideas," says the same writer, "begins in fact with the assumption that kinship in...there any of those subversions of feeling which we emphatically term revolutions, so startling and so complete as the change which is accomplished when...

...membership to be founded on common lineage." " The history of political ideas," says the same writer, " be.gins in fact with the assumption that kinship in...there any of those subversions of feeling which we emphatically term revolutions, so startling and so complete as the change which is accomplished when...

...Tribes constitute the Commonwealth. Are we at liberty to follow these indications, and to lay down that the commonwealth is a collection of persons united...this for their holding together in political union. . . . What was obviously true of the Family was believed to be true, first of the House, next of the...

...Tribes constitute the Commonwealth. Are we at liberty to follow these indications, and to lay down that the commonwealth is a collection of persons united...this for their holding together in political union. . . . What was obviously true of the Family was believed to be true, first of the House, next of the...

...ancient societies " regarded themselves as having proceeded from " one original stock, and even laboured under " an incapacity for comprehending any reason..." union. The history of political ideas begins, in Kinship "fact, with the assumption that kinship in blood " is the sole possible ground of community...

...ancient "societies regarded themselves as having proceeded "from one original stock, and even laboured under an " incapacity for comprehending any reason...history of political ideas begins, in fact, with the as" sumption that kinship in blood is the sole possible "ground of community in political functions;...