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The role of the old in primitive societies: they alone have assimilated all the cultural heritage and are able to pass it on. It travels through persons who have themselves lived long enough to take it in72 – Balance – fixed order
196 Levi Strauss
Lewis Mumford
Armenia, NY
8 May 1955
222
Impt!
Law as emergency custom: introduced where the situation is too complicate
or too novel to be dealt with on the basis of consensus, past knowledge, habit.
228 Justice & peace as function of "kingship"