Lewis H. Morgan Quote

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.


Ancient Society; Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, Through Barbarism to Civilization (ed. 1877)


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

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

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

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