Sections 1 MUTUAL AID AMONG THE BARBARIANS The great migrations. 2 And yet, as soon as the every-day life of man during the historical period is submitted to a… 3 Ere long history will have to be re-written on new lines, so as to take into account these… 4 The Teutons, the Celts, the Scandinavians, the Slavonians, and others, when they first came… 5 It is now known, and scarcely contested, that the village community was not a specific… 6 A very long evolution was required before the gentes, or clans, recognized the separate… 7 Common hunting, common fishing, and common culture of the orchards or the plantations of… 8 Communal cultivation does not, however, imply by necessity communal consumption. 9 When the European traveller lands in some small island of the Pacific, and, seeing at a… 10 The village community was the chief arm of the barbarians in their hard struggle against a… 11 A man discontented with the folkmote could declare that he would abandon the tribe and go… 12 In their conceptions of justice the barbarians evidently did not much differ from the savages. 13 All this, as seen is very far from the supposed "moral dissoluteness" 14 One feature more of the old village communities deserves a special mention. 15 If we take the village communities of the Mongol Buryates, especially those of the Kudinsk… 16 With all that, inequalities of fortune rapidly develop among the Buryates, especially since… 17 The feeling of union within the confederation is kept alive by the common interests of the… 18 The Kabyles know no authority whatever besides that of the djemmaa, or folkmote of the… 19 As the Kabyles already have private property, they evidently have both rich and poor among them. 20 I can only cursorily mention two other most interesting features of Kabyle life; namely, the… 21 The mountaineers of Caucasia offer another extremely instructive field for illustrations of… 22 The head-dress of the women is anaya. 23 The village communities of the natives of both Americas have the same character. 24 More illustrations would simply involve me in tedious repetitions—so strikingly similar are… 25 2. 26 6. 27 22.
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