It also points, possibly, to a period whenmost of the land lay in grass.
Gower had praised Henry of Lancaster at a period when he could not have contemplated the change of dynasty; and when it happened, the poet was of an age far too advanced either to partake of the hopes or the fears that wait on a new reign.
Those which were most violent had been published during a period when he was confined to his room, and could not, and did not, take part in conducting the Tribune.
The Amicable, however, may be received as the nursing mother of life assurance at a period when, little as arithmetical economy was understood, it was still less acted on.
It was published at a period when, the city being less populous, there was additional facility in arriving at certain facts.
As it was, they lived at a period when it was considered the highest, most astute and successful form of trade to resort to any means, however base, to secure profits.
The question for us is, Can we call exogamy a survival from a period when (owing to scarcity of women and polyandry) clear ideas of kinship were impossible?
If this can be proved, exogamous Aryans either passed through polyandrous institutions, or borrowed a savage custom derived from a period when ideas of kinship were obscure.
It may be said without indiscretion that Mr. M'Lennan once thought totemism arose at a period when ideas of kinship scarcely existed at all.
It may be said without indiscretion that Mr. M'Lennan thought totemism arose at a period when ideas of kinship scarcely existed at all.
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