ABSTRACT
The incessant changeless change, the uncertainty and monotony of the hunter’s life become more stable, and later more diverse. Human groups acquire a “native soil” and a firm organic basis from which all higher amenities and powers develop. geneonomy begins a fresh phase. The Sept is a more closely united Community in this phase of culture than in any other. Its members share the soil they cultivate in common; the produce is divided among the families of the tribe, “each according to their need”. Another great sociological advance of this phase was the amalgamation of tribes and hordes into a Race, a People. Among the aboriginal Australians, political organization had reached the point of association between hordes and tribes. Thus the matrilineal sept, which had formerly been a scattered handful bound together by name and totem only, solidifies into a sturdy concrete entity, territorial, economic, social, and political.
