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The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

— Henry James Sumner 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 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)

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