. The history of mankind . s for the small-ness of primitivestates. Among most naturalraces the familyand the societyform unions solarge, so frequentlycoinciding, so ex-clusive, that littleremains to sparefor the state. Therapid break-up ofempires is counter-balanced by thesturdy tribal the empiresfall to pieces newones form them-selves from the oldtribes. The familyof blood-relations,in their commonbarrack or village, represents at the same time a political unit, which can fromtime to time enter into combination with others of the kind ; to which perhapsit is bound by more distant r
. The history of mankind . s for the small-ness of primitivestates. Among most naturalraces the familyand the societyform unions solarge, so frequentlycoinciding, so ex-clusive, that littleremains to sparefor the state. Therapid break-up ofempires is counter-balanced by thesturdy tribal the empiresfall to pieces newones form them-selves from the oldtribes. The familyof blood-relations,in their commonbarrack or village, represents at the same time a political unit, which can fromtime to time enter into combination with others of the kind ; to which perhapsit is bound by more distant relationship. But it is quite content to remain byitself so long as no external power operates to shake its narrow Africa, with all its wealth of population, contains no single really largestate. In that country, the greater an empire the less its duration and thelooser its cohesion. It requires greater organising and consolidating power,such as we meet with among the Fulbes or Wahuma, not merely to found,. Lansro chief and magician. (From a photograph by Richard Buchta.) i. Difuma dia Di-kongo. Iron sceptre,borne by the Bashi-lang chief, Mana Kat-embe. 2. Baluba woodenshield with cross-weav-ing. 3. Basonge chiefsstaff of iron ; the figureoverlaid with sheet-copper. 4. Basonge orna-mental spear (ZappuZapp) inlaid withcopper. 5. Ornamentalspear from the Ruiki. 6. Basonge spear. 7. Baluba spear. 8. Samba spear. 9. Baluba doubledrum. 10. Baluba wovenbark mat. 11. Baluba bigdrum, used at festivals. (1-10 from theYVissmann Collection ;11 from the PoggeCollection.)
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