 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1883 - 524 pages
...maintained by him was, as many of our readers will remember, that " the theory of the origin of society in separate families, held together by the authority...and protection of the eldest valid male ascendant, has claims to be considered ' a real historical theory,' while the theories based upon the hypothesis... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1885 - 544 pages
...Law and Custom (p. 193), the Patriarchal theory is etated as ' the theory of the origin of society in separate families, held together by the authority and protection of the eldest valid ascendant.' It is expressly admitted (Ancient Law, p. 150) that'the powers themselves are discernible... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1885 - 568 pages
...Law and Custom (p. 193), the Patriarchal theory is stated as ' the theory of the origin of society in separate families, held together by the authority and protection of the eldest valid ascendant.' It is expressly admitted (Ancient Law, p. 150) that 'the powers themselves are discernible... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1886 - 620 pages
...found necessary or convenient by most of our readers : — ' It is the theory of the origin of society in separate families, held together by the authority...and protection of the eldest valid male ascendant.' * ' The strongest and wisest male rules. He jealously guards his wife or wives. All under his protection... | |
 | Abel Hastings Ross - Congregational churches - 1887 - 422 pages
...of the origin of society, which has been stated by Sir Henry Maine to be, " ' the origin of society in separate families, held together by the authority...and protection of the eldest valid male ascendant. . . . The strongest and wisest male rules. . . . All under his protection are on an equality.' This... | |
 | William Francis Allen - History - 1890 - 412 pages
...Theories of Primitive Society," he pronounces in favor of the "patriarchal theory of society" — that is, "the theory of its origin in separate families, held...and protection of the eldest valid male ascendant " — against the view presented by Morgan and McLennan, of its origin in the horde. That this was... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1890 - 422 pages
...primitive or very ancient social order. The Patriarchal theory is the theory of the origin of society in separate families, held together by the authority...and protection of the eldest valid male ascendant; and, having dwelt on the peculiar importance of Roman law in investigations such as I was prosecuting,... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 872 pages
...in Ancient Law, In the latter work, Maine, it will be remembered, deduces the origin of society from separate families held together by the authority and protection of the eldest male ascendants. The evolutionary process he traces by shewing how "the elementary group is the Family,... | |
 | Charles William Louis Launspach - Constitutional history - 1908 - 320 pages
...Early Law and Custom, p. 193, says: "The patriarchal theory is the theory of the origin of society in separate families, held together by the authority...and protection of the eldest valid male ascendant." The question whether patriarchism represents the very earliest form of primordial society need not... | |
 | Luther Hess Waring - Church and state - 1910 - 310 pages
...pieces.2 Sir Henry Maine was the leading advocate of the patriarchal theory, ie, that society originated in separate families, held together by the authority and protection of the oldest valid male ascendant.3 Hooker held that the natural laws "bind men absolutely, even as they... | |
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Patriarchal theory is etated as 'the theory of the origin of society in separate families, held together by the authority and protection of the eldest valid ascendant. 
