Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Lewis H. Morgan
Born: November 21, 1818
Died: December 17, 1881 (aged 63)
Bio: Lewis Henry Morgan was a pioneering 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.
Known for:
- Ancient Society (1877)
- League of the Ho-de-no sau-nee, or Iroquois (1851)
- The American Beaver and His Works (1868)