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 A BIO UL T URA L OBGNISATION 618 so they gradually slipped from the state of commu- nal ownership, if owuership at all there was, to that o! individual ownership, the head of the family being the real owner. In such a state of society the land, the property, would be reeognised as part of the wealth of the individual. We have abundant evidence of this in the Rig Veda. Beknas meant inherited property and ss such it is included in raF or wealth in general.  The question can connection whether the can be settling pastral or an given down Pasturage and [g.riculture be asked Aryans agricultural life. more or less to a life of The answer to definitely. They agriculture and pertinently in this at this stage lived a this agriculture developed very highly. But at time pasturage was undertaken universally. is that their pastoral habits were as much dence as their agricultural ones. A race were indeed the same The [act in o1- that is settling down to for long primarily pastoral, because the two a life of agricultnre must remain are economy of primitive man. tallies more tually helpful in the course pasral life state than ruth a settled die stage mainstay mu- with the nomadic one, because in the noras- ol life, hunting and pasturage are the of the people. That is why we find that the agriculture, were proceeding Elbe and always halting by ancient Teutons with very little known arts of towards Frisia along the the side of a river or in a valley where they could get good pasture lands and where, probably, they could get as much fish and flesh as were necessary for their maintenance. Otherwise for purposes of protection we would expect them to travel by the natural fastnesses only. Before t i, 81, 14; l, 121, 6; i, 15, 1; i, 153, f; vi, 20, ?; vii, 4, ?; Vii, 40, 2.