Note 264 — Chapter IX · - THE GRECIAN PHRATRY, TRIBE AND NATION.

Mr. Gladstone, who presents to his readers the Grecian chiefs of the heroic age as kings and princes, with the superadded qualities of gentlemen, is forced to admit that “on the whole we seem to have the custom or law of primogeniture sufficiently, but not oversharply defined.”—Juventus Mundi, Little & Brown’s ed., p. 428.