"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."
"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."
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Source: Lewis Henry Morgan (1877). “Ancient Society”, p.477, University of Arizona Press
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