Note 4 — Chapter I
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The classification of uncivilised peoples as hunting peoples and peoples with cattle forms part of the classification used by John Stuart Mill at the beginning of his Political Economy: and it is adopted and fully worked out by Mr Lewis Morgan in his Ancient Society.
All the statements of a general kind which I have made about uncivilised peoples have been verified by reference to Descriptive Sociology, Division I., an encyclopædia of facts relating to such peoples, which was designed by Mr Herbert Spencer and compiled by Professor Duncan. The advantages which uncivilised men gain from living and acting together and from having a government are explained by Mr Herbert Spencer in his Political Institutions, §§ 440-442.
My authorities for the individual peoples which have been noticed are these: for the Bushmen, Burchell, Travels (1822), and Thompson, Travels (1827): for the Esquimaux, C. F. Hall, Life with the Esquimaux (1864): for the Red Indians, H. Y. Hind, The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition (1860). All these books are cited in Descriptive Sociology.