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Forgotten Books The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
Excerpt from The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan; With an Appendix a Newly Discovered Case of Group Marriage (1892) Morgans great merit lies in having discovered and reconstructed this prehistoric foundation of our written history in its main features and in having found in the groups based on sex of the North American In dians the key to the most important hitherto insoluble riddles of the earliest Greek Roman and German history. His book however was not the work of one day. He grappled with his material for nearly forty years until be completely mastered it. That is why his book is one of the few epochmaking works of our time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.show more