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1822–1888 Scotland
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888) was a British comparative jurist, historian and political proto-progressive nonetheless famous for his varied objections to Whig history.
Scotland Historians Non-fiction authors Also known as: Henry Maine, Henry Sumner Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, Sir Henry Maine
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Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.
The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
The movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
History is a sound aristocrat.
The prejudices of the people are far stronger than those of the privileged classes; they are far more vulgar; and they are far more dangerous, because they are apt to run counter to scientific conclusions.
The family was based, not upon actual relationship, but upon power, and the husband acquired over his wife the same despotic power which the father had over his children.
The early history of the property of married women (1873)
The delusion that Democracy, when it has once had all things put under its feet, is a progressive form of government, lies deep in the convictions of a particular political school, but there can be no delusion grosser.
The new theory of Language has unquestionably produced a new theory of Race . . . If you examine the bases proposed for common nationality before the new knowledge growing out of the study of Sanskrit had popularized in Europe, you will find them extremely unlike those which are now advocated and even passionately advocated in part of the Continent.
So great is the ascendancy of the Law of Actions in the infancy of Courts of Justice, that substantive law has at first the look of being gradually secreted in the interstices of procedure; and the early lawyer can only see the law through the envelope of its technical forms.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom (1883)
Nobody is at liberty to attack several property and to say at the same time that he values civilisation. The history of the two cannot be disentangled. Civilisation is nothing more than a name for the old order of the Aryan world, dissolved but perpetually re-constituting itself under a vast variety of solvent influences, of which infinitely the most powerful have been those which have, slowly, and in some parts of the world much less perfectly than others, substituted several property for collective ownership.
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