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Origins of the Family-- Chapter IV

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Origins of the Family-- Chapter IV Frederick Engels Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State IV. The Greek Gens From prehistoric times Greeks and Pelasgians alike, and other peoples of kindred stock, had been organized in the same organic series as the Americans: gens, phratry, tribe, confederacy of tribes. The phratry might be absent, as among the Dorians, and the confederacy of tribes was not necessarily fully developed everywhere as yet; but in every case the gens was the unit. At the time of their entry into history, the Greeks are on the threshold of civilization; between th

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