[55] L. Marx, in Steinmetz’s Rechtsverhältnisse, p. 359. [↑]
[56] The cattle, among pastoral tribes, are the property of individuals, not of the community; see Dargun, pp. 58–69. [↑]
[57] Schmoller remarks, that in pastoral life, among the savages of to-day as well as among the ancient nations of Europe and Asia, the contrast of wealth and poverty and the dependence of the poor upon the rich are strongly marked. (Grundriss, I pp. 198, 370, 371). [↑]
[58] “It is the nature of pasturage to produce food for a much greater number of people than it can employ. In countries strictly pastoral, therefore, many persons will be idle, or at most be very inadequately occupied.” Malthus, Book II Ch. V (Bettany’s edition, p. 196). [↑]
[59] Hildebrand, Recht und Sitte, first edition, pp. 37, 38 (after Prschewalsky, Radloff and Burckhardt). On the Mongols see also Iwanowski, p. 12. [↑]