The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels

Author:Friedrich Engels
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141958347
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-03-12T05:00:00+00:00

All the members of an Iroquois gens were personally free, and they were bound to defend each other’s freedom; they were equal in privileges and in personal rights, the sachem and chiefs claiming no superiority; and they were a brotherhood bound together by the ties of kin. Liberty, equality, and fraternity, though never formulated, were cardinal principles of the gens. These facts are material, because the gens was the unit of a social and governmental system, the foundation upon which Indian society was organized … It serves to explain that sense of independence and personal dignity universally an attribute of Indian character [pp. 85–6].

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