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vestiges of archaic collectivism. The question 

 arises as to whether there is a tendency in the 

 modern school of collectivism to resuscitate such 

 vestiges as remain of the old archaic form of col- 

 lectivism. Far from this being the case, collective 

 property, as conceived by the modern socialist, 

 implies the suppression of the few existing remnants 

 of archaic collectivism. 



Inheritance, ah intestat, for instance, is a survival 

 from the days of the family community, which 

 itself arose, as we have already seen, from the 

 primitive community. If the modern collectivist 

 school had any desire for a return to the old 

 primitive community, it would make for the re- 

 construction of the family community by re-estab- 

 lishing the law of collateral succession. Now it 

 is just the opposite with the collectivists. In 

 order to establish a universal system of collective 

 property they demand among other things, the 

 suppression of inherited succession, ab intestat, at 

 least as regards the collateral line of descent. 



4. The survival of elective sovereignty in Eng- 

 land. The above examples apply to institutions 

 which have degenerated without having completely 

 ceased to be functional. 



It very rarely happens, however, that having 

 arrived at that condition, they renew their vitality 

 and all their former functions, and this still more 

 rarely occurs in cases of genuine survival. 



In the English coronation -ceremony vestiges 



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