Note 536 — Chapter VI · [168] DISCUSSION OF KINSHIP
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The word descent is often used without any definition. Mr. E. S. Hartland, op. cit., i. p. 258, uses it in a sense synonymous with kinship. Mr. Thomas, too, does not define the meaning of this word, but he uses it more or less in the same way as is done in the text. Compare Thomas, loc. cit., pp. 11, 12 sqq.