... the family, connected by common subjection to the highest male ascendant. The aggregation of families forms the gens, or house. The aggregation of houses makes the tribe. The aggregation of ... gives the readers of the journal the sort of words and the sort of thoughts they are used to—so, on a larger scale, the writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age ... 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 several...