He also made use of many and diverse data gleaned in his own studies of the history of Greece, Rome, Old Ireland, and the Ancient Germans. Working on the book, he used Marx's precis, and some of Morgan's factual material and conclusions. The precis was written between 1880-81 and contained Marx's numerous remarks on Morgan as well as passages from other sources.Īfter reading the precis, Engels set out to write a special treatise - which he saw as fulfilling Marx's will. After Marx's death, in rumaging through Marx's manuscripts, Engels came upon Marx's precis of Ancient Society - a book by progressive US scholar Lewis Henry Morgan and published in London 1877.
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