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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 mental history of mankind.

Lewis H. Morgan

The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.

Lewis H. Morgan

The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.

Lewis H. Morgan

Lewis H. Morgan

Lewis H. Morgan

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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)

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