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of early literature, which among the Irish Celts, for example, seems to have left its traces in "Literary Fosterage,"[1] breaks up with the decomposition of clans into their component families, and the farther development of personal freedom from such family restraints as those of the Roman patria potestas. But, before we turn to this individualising process or to the evolution of literary forms, we shall illustrate another side of clan literature, viz. that on which the clansman's personality, so far as communal sentiments permit, is most distinctly visible.
- ↑ Sir Henry Maine (Early History of Institutions, pp. 242 sqq.) has cited evidences of Literary Fosterage in India resembling the Celtic. Signs of communal literary culture, however, are to be found in any literature with which the author of the present work is at all acquainted.
