The first great victory of civilisation was the conquest of nations with ill-defined families having legal descent through the mother only, by nations of definite families tracing descent through the father as well as the mother, or through the father only.
Bagehot discusses the historical victory of civilizations with defined family structures over those with less defined ones.
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