Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Lewis Henry Morgan

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Last updated on November 19, 2024.

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. Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan, not the patriarchal family.

American - Politician | November 21, 1818 - December 17, 1881

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Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.

Lewis Henry 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 Henry Morgan

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Lewis Henry Morgan

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 Henry Morgan

Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman

Lewis Henry 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 Henry Morgan

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Lewis Henry Morgan

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