![]() ![]() The decisions are taken by those concerned, and in most cases everything has been already settled by the custom of centuries. ![]() Although there were many more matters to be settled in common than today - the household is maintained by a number of families in common, and is communistic, the land belongs to the tribe, only the small gardens are allotted provisionally to the households - yet there is no need for even a trace of our complicated administrative apparatus with all its ramifications. ![]() All quarrels and disputes are settled by the whole of the community affected, by the gens or the tribe, or by the gentes among themselves only as an extreme and exceptional measure is blood revenge threatened-and our capital punishment is nothing but blood revenge in a civilized form, with all the advantages and drawbacks of civilization. “No soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles, kings, regents, prefects, or judges, no prisons, no lawsuits - and everything takes its orderly course. ![]()
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