... '"They have neither assemblies for consultation nor THEMISTES, but everyone exercises jurisdiction over his wives and his children, and they pay no regard to one another."' And ... common element in one era and some in another; some qualities seemed to overshadow and eclipse it in one era, and others in another. We overlook and half forget the constant while we see and ... tutored habits, no preservative bonds, and therefore they were at the mercy of every impulse and blown by every passion. The condition of the primitive man, if we conceive of him rightly, is, in...