John Ferguson McLennan epub McLennan, J: Studies in Ancient History

Excerpt from Studies in Ancient History: Comprising a Reprint of Primitive Marriage Barbarous and savage peoples has been 'much enlarged since 1865. There is nothing, however, he could have added to or varied in the facts which would have much affected the argument of the book; and, for the peoples whose customs are most likely to be helpful in reasoning about early societies, the facts will be gone into pretty fully in the projected volume already spoken of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.