Lecture VThe Chief and His OrderNothing seems to me to have been more clearly shown by recentresearches than the necessity of keeping apart the Tribe and theTribal Chief as distinct sources of positive institutions. Thelines of descent are constantly entwined, but each of them isfound to run up in the end to an independent origin. If I were toapply this assertion to political history, I should be onlyrepeating much of what has been said by Mr Freeman in his...
