He wrote an authoritative book on The American Beaver and his Works, in which he claimed that animals possess the ability to reason.
He wrote an authoritative book on The American Beaver and his Works, in which he claimed that animals possess the ability to reason. He was a lawyer in Rochester, and served as a state senator in 1868, but is better remembered for his books, one of which was praised by Marx and Engels as offering confirmation of their materialist view of history. FTP, identify this ethnologist, whose works on Native American culture include The League of the Iroquois and Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity, best known for his 1877 book on the origins of government, Ancient Society.
He wrote an authoritative book on The American Beaver and his Works, in which he claimed that animals possess the ability to reason.
Lewis Henry {Morgan}