Note 9 — I. LECTURE ON THE VEDAS SACRED BOOKS OF THE BRAHMANS,[8]
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'In the sciences of law and society, old means not old in chronology, but in structure: that is most archaic which lies nearest to the beginning of human progress considered as a development, and that is most modern which is farthest removed from that beginning.'—J. F. McLennan, 'Primitive Marriage,' p. 8.