...as well as of domestic institutions, Morgan wrote, "It can now be asserted upon convincing evidence that savagery preceded barbarism in all the tribes...one in source, one in experience, one in progress." ii4 A more succinct statement of cultural evolutionary principles could hardly be found, but Morgan...

...to barbarians, and of barbarians to civilized men. It can now be asserted upon convincing evidence that savagery preceded barbarism in all the tribes...civilization. The history of the human race is one in source, oue in experience, and one in progress." He then on the second and third pages writes, that " Inventions...

...of the primitive by many anthropologists. For Morgan it could 'be asserted upon convincing evidence that savagery preceded barbarism in all the tribes...barbarism is known to have preceded civilization' (1963: preface). Thus barbarism and savagery together constituted the primitive or tribal condition....

...York : Henry Holt & Co. different tribes, or clans, occupying different portions of the earth, that " the history of the human race is one in source, one in experience, and one in progress." The author starts with the assumption that the discoveries of the last thirty...