ABSTRACT
Geneonomic considerations yield more and more to social, and the trend appears to be towards a remote goal where tribe and family will have handed over all but the narrowest geneonomic functions to the flexible and powerful community. The most important geneonomic manifestation of the Tribal Age is the Clan or Sept. If Sociology is not to be a mere hobby or game it must investigate the Past of the human social organism in order to understand the present and to illuminate the future; for all genuine science admits the validity of Comtek axiom: “know in order to foresee, foresee in order to forewarn.” Division of history into sections or phases, without any coherent trend or line of direction, may be of use to the political historian: an example of such a division is the commonplace “Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Modern Times”.
