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An ill-knit nation which does not recognise paternity as a legal relation, would be conquered like a mob by any other nation which had a vestige or a beginning of the patria potestas.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “An ill-knit nation which does not recognise paternity as a legal relation, would be conquered like a mob by any other…”
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Bagehot warns that a nation that does not recognize paternity as a legal concept is vulnerable to conquest by those that do.
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