Henry Sumner Maine

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5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 77,497x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 67,193x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 65,105x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,710x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,272x

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Quotes

• “The family was based, not upon actual relationship, but upon power, and the husband acquired over his wife the same despotic power which the father had over his children.”
• “We cannot give a reason, other than mere chance, why power over a wife should have retained the name of manus, why power over a child should have obtained another name, potestas, why power over slaves and inanimate property should in later times be called dominium. But, although the transformation of meanings be capricious, the process of specialisation is a permanent phenomenon, in the highest degree important and worthy of observation.”
• “The new theory of Language has unquestionably produced a new theory of Race . . . If you examine the bases proposed for common nationality before the new knowledge growing out of the study of Sanskrit had popularized in Europe, you will find them extremely unlike those which are now advocated and even passionately advocated in part of the Continent.”
• “[T]he extreme forms of government, Monarchy and Democracy, have a peculiarity which is absent from the more tempered political systems founded on compromise, Constitutional Kingship and Aristocracy. When they are first established in absolute completeness, they are highly destructive. There is a general, sometimes chaotic, upheaval, while the nouvelles couches are settling into their place in the transformed commonwealth.”
• “There is no belief less warranted by actual experience, than that a democratic republic is, after the first and in the long-run, given to reforming legislation. As is well known to scholars, the ancient republics hardly legislated at all; their democratic energy was expended upon war, diplomacy, and justice; but they put nearly insuperable obstacles in the way of a change of law. The Americans of the Umted States have hedged themselves round in exactly the same way.”
• “The prejudices of the people are far stronger than those of the privileged classes; they are far more vulgar; and they are far more dangerous, because they are apt to run counter to scientific conclusions.”

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