Lewis Henry Morgan Professions : Former Member of the New York State SenateBorn : November 21, 1818Died : December 17, 1881 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Lewis Henry Morgan A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind. Lewis Henry Morgan politicswisdomideas The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair. Lewis Henry Morgan wisdomchildrenmoving The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property. Lewis Henry Morgan masterypoliticswisdom Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave. Lewis Henry Morgan politicswisdomhands The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending. Lewis Henry Morgan governmentwisdomrights Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman Lewis Henry Morgan subordinationcapitalismresponsible
