Ancient Society, by Lewis H. Morgan (New York, 1877), in 577 searchable pdf pages, bookmarked by chapter. The book is subtitled "Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization." A Wikipedia entry (Lewis H. Morgan) describes the life and works of this influential observer and author: "...Morgan is the only American social theorist to be cited by such diverse scholars as Marx, Charles Darwin, and Sigmund Freud." Book digitized by Google and compiled by Robert Bedrosian.

Table of Contents

Part I. Growth of Intelligence through Inventions and Discoveries

1. Ethnical Periods
2. Arts of Subsistence
3. Ratio of Human Progress

Part II. Growth of the Idea of Government

1. Organization of Society upon the Basis of Sex
2. The Iroquois Gens
3. The Iroquois Phratry
4. The Iroquois Tribes
5. The Iroquois Confederacy
6. Gentes in Other Tribes of the Ganowanian Family
7. The Aztec Confederacy
8. The Grecian Gens
9. The Grecian Phratry, Tribe and Nation
10. The Institution of Grecian Political Society
11. The Roman Gens
12. The Roman Curia, Tribe and Populus
13. The Institution of Roman Political Society
14. Change of Descent from the Female to the Male Line
15. Gentes in Other Tribes of the Human Family

Part III. Growth of the Idea of the Family

1. The Ancient Family
2. The Consanguine Family
3. The Punaluan Family
4. The Syndyasmian and the Patriarchal Families
5. Monogamian Family
6. Sequence of Institutions Connected with the Family

Part IV. Growth of the Idea of Property

1. The Three Rules of Inheritance
2. Three Rules of Inheritance — Continued

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