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to me, a reference to this later work meets the case.'941
If Engels' The Origin of Family^ Private Property and State has become for the Marxists a classic for the full understanding of the dialectics of social evolution, let us not forget the simple fact that in the title of the book Engels remembered to add: "in the light of the researches of Lewis H. Morgan."
1 V Gordon Childe, What Happened in History, Penguin, 1957, p 7.
2 L H Morgan, Ancient Society, p 561. Emphasis added.
3 VI Lenin, Frederick Engels. See Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, 1975, pp 15-16.
4 F Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific", in Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, 1975. p 423. 5 Ibid. 6 Ibid, p 426.
7 B J Stern, in Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, 1954, Vol XI, p 13.
8 The full title of the work is Ancient Society, or Researches in the Lines of Progress from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilisation.
9 Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Moscow, 1952, p 10.
10 Morgan, op cit, p 3. Emphasis added. 11 Ibid, pp 7-8.
12 Ibid, p 18. Emphasis added.
13 G Thomson, Studies in Ancient Greek Society, London, 1949, Vol I, pp 142-143.
14 Ibid, p 34 f.
15 Engels, Origin of Family..., op cit, pp 32-33.
16 G Thomson, op cit, p 70.
37 Ibid.p^Sn. 18 Ibid,? 59. 19 Ibid, pp 59-60.
20 J D Bernal, Science in History, Penguin, 1969, p 1083.
21 Thomson, op cit, p 85. 22 Ibid, p 85. 23 Ibid, p 86.
24 Quoted by Thomson, ibid, p 86.
25 Engels, Origin of Family..., op cit, p284.
26 Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow, 1975, p 347.
27 Engels, Origin of Family..., op cit, pp 7-8.
28 Marx and Engels, Selected Works, op cit, p 32.
29 Ibid, p 36n.
30 It needs to be noted that during Morgan's time practically nothing was known of the early class societies in Egypt and Mesopoteroia, not to speak of Indus Valley. Morgan had to depend mainly on the evidences of ancient Greece and Rome.
31 Engels, Origin of Family..., op cit, p 7. This point is emphasised by Engels in his other writings also. For example, see, Marx and Engels, Selected Cor res9 pondence, op cit, p 347.
32 Marx and Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party. See Selected Works, op cit, p 52.
33 Ibid,? 45. Emphasis added. Cf Engels, "Socialism Utopia and Scientific", in Marx and Engels, Selected Works, pp 424-425.
34 Engels, Anti-Duhring, Moscow, 1969, p 30.
35 Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, op cit, p 189. Emphasis added.
36 Engels, Origin of Family..., op cit, p 10.
37 Hngels, Anti-Duhring, op cit, pp 13-14.
38 Ibid, p 168. 39 Ibid, p 165. 40 Ibid, p 211. 41 Ibid, p 15.