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PATRIARCHAL GOVERNMENT

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Vested in the heads of families

EXERCISED IN

Training, &c their servants for war

Vindicating their wrongs

Forming treaties and alliances

Acting as priests

Acting as judges

Arbitrarily disinheriting and putting away servants and children

Blessing and cursing their children

The authority of heads of families for, acknowledged