The Ancient City: a Study On the Religion, Laws And Institution of Greece And Rome.
The Ancient City: a Study On the Religion, Laws And Institution of Greece And Rome.
Fustel De Coulanges
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The tribes that united j to form a city never foiled to light a sacred fire, and to j adopt a common religion. ) Thus human society, in this race, did not enlarge like a circle, which increases on all sides, gaining little , Digitized by Google 168 THB CITT. BOOK UL by little. There were, on the contrary, small groups, ! which, having been long established, were finally joined together in larger ones. Several families formed the phratry, several phratries the tribe, several tribes the city. Fam...ily, phratry, tribe, city, were, moreover, soci- eties exactly similar to each other, which were formed one after the other by a series of federations. We must remark, also, that when the different groups became thus associated, none of them lost its individu- • ality, or its independence. Although several families were united in a phratry, each one of them remained constituted just as it had been when separate. Nothing was changed in it, neither worship nor priesthood, nor property nor internal justice.
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