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| c113103 | In agricultural communities, male leadership in the hunt ceased to be of much importance. As the discipline of the hunting band decayed, the political institutions of the earliest village settlements perhaps approximated the anarchism which has remained ever since the ideal of peaceful peasantries all round the earth. Probably religious functionaries, mediators between helpless mankind and the uncertain fertility of the earth, provided an i.. | utopia | William H. McNeill | |
| 85bac49 | Categories of understanding along with everything else alter as societies change. | William H. McNeill | ||
| 5455748 | Social science is itself part of the social experience it seeks to interpret and explain. | William H. McNeill | ||
| 2c50a22 | I do not insist that I am right: I merely think so. | William H. McNeill |