Village-communities in the East and West: Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford, to which are Added Other Lectures, Addresses, and EssaysJ. Murray, 1876 - 413 страници |
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Страница 238 - That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.
Страница 68 - person aggrieved complains not of an individual wrong, " but of the disturbance of the order of the entire little "society. More than all, customary law is not enforced " by a sanction. In the almost inconceivable case of disobedience to the award of the village council, the sole " punishment, or the sole certain punishment, would "appear to be universal disapprobation.
Страница 82 - But there appears to be no country inhabited by an Aryan race in which traces do not remain of the ancient periodical redistribution.
Страница 73 - If I had to state what for the moment is the greatest change which has come over the people of India and the change which has added most seriously to the difficulty of governing them, I should say it was the growth on all sides of the sense of individual legal right...
Страница 306 - Evidence" means and includes — W (1) all statements which the Court permits or requires to be made before it by witnesses, in relation to matters of fact under inquiry ; such statements are called oral evidence : (2) all documents produced for the inspection of the Court ; such documents are called documentary evidence.
Страница 88 - Yorkshire, there are extensive open and common 1 fields. Out of 316 parishes in Northamptonshire, 89 are in this condition; more than 100 in Oxfordshire ; about 50,000 acres in Warwickshire ; in Berkshire, half the county ; more than half of Wiltshire ; in Huntingdonshire, out of a total area of 240,000 acres, 130,000 were commonable meadows...
Страница 78 - Each family in the township was governed by its own free head or paterfamilias. The precinct of the family dwelling-house could be entered by nobody but himself and those under his patria potestas, not even by officers of the law, for he himself made law within and enforced law made without.
Страница 57 - ... recognised by the Brahminical writers. But otherwise, caste is merely a name for trade or occupation, and the sole tangible effect of the Brahminical theory is that it creates a religious sanction for what is really a primitive and natural distribution of classes. The true view of India is that, as a whole, it is divided into a vast number of independent, self-acting, organised social groups—trading, manufacturing, cultivating.
Страница 226 - All men are equal. The scene before us is rather that which the animal world presents to the mental eye of those who have the courage to bring home to themselves the facts answering to the memorable theory of Natural Selection. Each fierce little community is perpetually at war with its neighbor, tribe with tribe, village with village.
Страница 149 - What practically has to be determined is the unit of society for agrarian purposes; and you find that, in determining it, you determine everything, and give its character finally to the entire political and social constitution of the province. You are at once compelled to confer on the selected class powers coextensive with its duties to the sovereign. Not that the assumption is ever made that...