The magazine of American history with notes and queries . Mrr/// ATU,. MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY Vol. IX APRIL 1883 No. 4 MONTAUK AND THE COMMON LANDS OF EASTHAMPTON IF not in the earliest, still in very early times, the system of village com-munities was that which prevailed among all the branches of the Aryanrace. The essential characteristics of the village community, as an agri-cultural system, were common ownership of the soil and common varieties occur, some of which seem to have been successive, or at leastfrom their nature may easily have been. Thus among the Hindus
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . Mrr/// ATU,. MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY Vol. IX APRIL 1883 No. 4 MONTAUK AND THE COMMON LANDS OF EASTHAMPTON IF not in the earliest, still in very early times, the system of village com-munities was that which prevailed among all the branches of the Aryanrace. The essential characteristics of the village community, as an agri-cultural system, were common ownership of the soil and common varieties occur, some of which seem to have been successive, or at leastfrom their nature may easily have been. Thus among the Hindus, who havemore exactly preserved the customs of the common Aryan ancestors, isfound what seems the most primitive form of the institution. Here thecommunity is a household consisting of persons actually of common descent,who own and cultivate their land in common and live together as onefamily, subsisting upon the jointly owned products. Among the much-en-during Servians and Bosnians the family community (there may be severalsuch communities in a village) owns and c
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