Lewis Henry Morgan Quotes:
Ocupation: Former Member of the New York State Senate
Life: November 21, 1818 - December 17, 1881
Birthday: November 21
Death: December 17
The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.
source: Lewis Henry Morgan (1877). “Ancient Society”, p.477, University of Arizona Press
topic: Children, Moving, Reality, Progeny
