The case is still the same among a part of the Semitic race, and among some of the Slavic nations.

There were distinguished, first, the allies, who had a government and laws of their own, and no legal bond with Roman citizens; second, the colonies, which enjoyed the civil rights of the Romans, without having political rights; third, the cities of the Italian right, — that is to say, those to whom, by the favor of Rome, the complete right of prop

Their city ( urbs) might remain standing, but the state ( civitas) had perished.

Marriage was this sacred ceremony, which was to produce these important effects.

Then a man loved his house as he now loves his church.214

The Tartars have an idea of the right of property in a case of flocks or herds, but they cannot understand it when it is a question of land. Among the ancient Germans the earth belonged to no one; every year the tribe assigned to each one of its members a lot to cultivate, and the lot was changed the following year.

This priest of the public hearth bore the name of king. Sometimes they gave him other titles. As he was especially the priest of the prytaneum, the Greeks preferred to call him the prytane; sometimes also they called him the archon. Under these different names of king, prytane, and archon we are to see a personage who is, above all, the chief of th

Men thought themselves nothing if they were not Roman citizens.

In this primitive religion each god could be adored only by one family. Religion was purely domestic.