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barbarous, but which have a complex social and political structure, where the primitive tribal régime has more or less disappeared, and where a line of demarcation sufficiently strong separates the interests of the individual from those of the group to which he belongs. In short, the social transformation from which the paternal family has arisen has nearly always coincided with a radical change in the régime of property, which has simultaneously become individual or, at least, familial.
