...move at all, move through one fated series of stages which may be designated as Stage A, Stage £, Stage C, and so forth, we still should have to face...stages " ; they leapt to the one and to the other.' (Domesday Book and Beyond, p. 345.) The accident of borrowing one alphabet rather than another, or...

...wardship (Hazeltine, "Zur Geschichte der Ebeschliessung nach angelsachsischem Recht," Berlin, 1905). and so forth, we still should have to face the fact...stages ' ; they leapt to the one and to the other " (" Domesday Book and Beyond," p. 345). The accident of borrowing one alphabet rather than another,...

...series of stages, which may be designated as Stage A, Stage B, Stage C, and so forth, we should still have to face the fact that the rapidly progressive...of stages; they leapt to the one and to the other." — Domesday Book and Beyond, p. 345. we know for certain that particular stages are earlier than others,...

...series of changes, it remained a fact that the rapidly progressive groups had not been independent. " Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors did not arrive at the alphabet...'stages'; they leapt to the one and to the other." And again the complexity and interdependence of human affairs render it impossible to hope for scientific...

...series of changes, it remained a fact that the rapidly progressive groups had not been independent. "Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors did not arrive at the alphabet...'stages'; they leapt to the one and to the other." And again the complexity and interdependence of human affairs render it impossible to hope for scientific...

...full : "Even had our anthropologists at their command material that would justify them in prescribing that every independent portion of mankind must, if...'stages' ; they leapt to the one and to the other." Present ethnographical knowledge warrants us in extending Maitland's argument ; we know that the relatively...

...meddle ; but if the anthropologist will concede to the historian that he need not start from communalism as from a necessary and primitive datum, a large room...programme for all portions of mankind is idle and stages! C< unscientific. For one thing, the number of such -portions that we can with any plausibility...

...full: " Even had our anthropologists at their command material that would justify them in prescribing that every independent portion of mankind must, if...stages ' ; they leapt to the one and to the other." Present ethnographical knowledge warrants us in extending Maitland's argument; we know that the relatively...

...out their own salvation, but have appropriated alien ideas, and have thus been enabled, for anything we can tell, to leap from stage A to stage X without...'stages'; they leapt to the one and to the other.'' 81 Progress by leaping from one culture to another through borrowing is illustrated in the case of...

...might make a sudden leap which would be inexplicable except in terms of such diffusion and borrowing. 'Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors did not arrive at the alphabet...long series of "stages": they leapt to the one and the other.' I may seem to have strayed into anthropology, and to have taken Maitland with me in my...