For Morgan in his own way had discovered afresh in America the materialistic conception of history discovered by Marx forty years ago, and in his comparison of barbarism and civilization it had led him, in the main points, to the same conclusions as Marx. No less a man than Karl Marx had made it one of his future tasks to present the results of Morgan’s researches in the light of the conclusions of his own - within certain limits, I may say our - materialistic examination of history, and thus to make clear their full significance. “The following chapters are, in a sense, the execution of a bequest. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.
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