440 INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONS. 



Here we have a transitional case in which, to a consider 

 able extent, there is recognized the right of private property, 

 at the same time that there is communal property and com 

 munal regulation of industry ; and in which the communism, 

 in so far as it is maintained, is, in part, maintained for the 

 sake of safety. 



784. On now taking up afresh the thread broken at the 

 end of the last chapter, in which patriarchal regulation had 

 been described as transitional to communal regulation, I may 

 fitly quote, as verifying the conclusion that the reverence 

 felt by the young for the old is a chief factor, the testimony 

 contained in a recent book by Mr. D. G. Hogarth, -4 Wander 

 ing /Scholar in the Levant. He says : 



&quot;Islam, by the respect it secures to age, gives every village the 

 basis of communal government.&quot; 



Aryan peoples, also, with which we are now concerned, have 

 everywhere illustrated the implied truth. 



Of -the more usual kinds of communal organization arising 

 from ihe developed patriarchal group, we may begin with 

 those presented by compound households which, in Eastern 

 Europe, .exist in one or other form down to the present day. 

 In his Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot, Mr. A. 

 J.Evans writes that, after the Turkish invasion had destroyed 

 the preceding social organization, &quot; society reverted to that 

 almost patriarchal form which the Sclavonic settlers had 

 carried with them into the Illyrian triangle.&quot; The allot 

 ments parcelled out among the new settlers were &quot; held in 

 common, not so much by a village-community as by a single 

 household. Thus the Starescina, or alderman of the com 

 munity, was often literally the elective elder of the house 

 hold.&quot; 



&quot;&quot;We heard of families still existing [near Sissek] containing over 

 three hundred members all living within the same palisaded yard, and 

 forming a village of themselves; nor is it by any means rare to find 

 villages in the Granitza consisting of a couple of households.&quot; 



