item: #1 of 4 id: 22910 author: Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir title: Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society date: None words: 99012 flesch: 45 summary: I have spoken of primitive jurisprudence as giving to _criminal_ law a priority unknown in a later age. The exigencies of space and of simplicity compel me to pass by, to a large extent, most of the other topics with which Maine deals--the place of custom, code, and fiction in the development of early law, the affiliation of international Law to the _Jus Gentium_ and the Law of Nature, the origins of feudalism and of primogeniture, the early history of delict and crime, and that most remarkable and profound passage in which Maine shows the heavy debt of the various sciences to Roman law and the influence which it has exerted on the vocabulary of political science, the concepts of moral philosophy, and the doctrines of theology. keywords: ancient; authority; canon law; civil; common; community; conception; condition; contract; course; early; english; english law; equity; fact; family; form; general; history; ideas; influence; jurisprudence; law; laws; lawyers; men; modern; moral; natural; nature; new; number; origin; period; persons; place; point; power; principle; property; property law; rights; roman; rome; rules; social; societies; society; state; subject; succession; system; theory; thought; time; view; world cache: 22910.txt plain text: 22910.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 33111 author: Engels, Friedrich title: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State date: None words: 65209 flesch: 61 summary: We are here confronted by a series of family forms that are in direct contradiction with those that were currently regarded as alone prevailing. Hence there was less temptation for a Spartan to hold intercourse with other women. keywords: barbarism; brothers; case; children; civilization; class; classes; constitution; council; day; development; division; existence; family; father; female; form; gens; gentes; gentile; german; group; history; intercourse; labor; land; law; man; marriage; means; members; monogamy; morgan; mother; nations; new; order; people; place; power; production; property; public; right; roman; rule; slaves; society; stage; system; time; tribes; wealth; wife; women cache: 33111.txt plain text: 33111.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 35911 author: Reid, Mayne title: Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man date: None words: 130292 flesch: 66 summary: Many species of palms and _calamus_ supply them with materials for this purpose, one of the best being the Iu palm (_Astrocaryum acaule_). The rod thus used is obtained from another species of _Iriartea_ palm, of which the wood is very hard and tough. keywords: account; amazon; america; animal; appearance; arrows; birds; black; body; bushman; chaco; character; colour; common; country; course; deer; desert; digger; distance; dress; dwelling; earth; end; esquimaux; fact; fashion; feet; fish; flesh; food; forest; form; good; great; ground; habits; hair; half; having; head; height; horse; human; indian; islands; kind; lake; laplander; length; life; man; means; men; miles; mode; mountains; nature; new; north; northern; number; palm; pampas; parts; patagonian; people; piece; place; plains; point; present; purpose; race; red; river; savage; scarce; sea; set; size; skin; small; snow; sort; south; spanish; species; surface; territory; time; tree; tribes; use; water; way; white; wild; women; world cache: 35911.txt plain text: 35911.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 60393 author: Phillips, Rog title: Game Preserve date: None words: 6379 flesch: 90 summary: Then Big One lifted Elf to his feet and patted him on the back affectionately, a broad grin forming a toothy gap at the top of his bushy black beard. Elf answered the grin with one of his own, and at that moment his ever present yearning to grow up to be the biggest and the strongest like Big One flowed through him with new strength. keywords: big; creatures; elf; men; sounds cache: 60393.txt plain text: 60393.txt