The Chances of Death, Vol. 2 of 2
Author: Karl Pearson
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Published: 2015-07-20
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781331890461
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Chances of Death, Vol. 2 of 2: And Other Studies in Evolution When we seek to investigate the origins of such familiar institutions as ownership and matrimony, we rapidly discover that written history is itself the product of a stage of human development long posterior to that of the origins we are curious about. To speak paradoxically, history begins long before history. Vague and often very unreliable traces of it - traditional history - are to be found in the sagas and hero-songs of bards and scalds. But bards and scalds are themselves an outcome of the heroic age - an age of warlike organisation and of petty chieftains, if not of kings; an age, indeed, when ownership and marriage have already a long history, and are of that patriarchal type which the Bible, if not Maurer or Maine, has made familiar to all of us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
