Henry Maine

Henry Maine appears in 178.母权论：伟大的错误or深刻的洞见？母权社会存在过吗？ as the episode’s shorthand for a 19th-century patriarchal-eternity view. Under Roman law and Biblical influence, that view treated father-rule and patriarchal family order as humanity’s original social form.

The episode uses Maine as the foil that makes Johann Jakob Bachofen important. Bachofen’s 《母权论》 / Mother Right may be weak as direct evidence, but it breaks the certainty that patriarchal order was never historical, never contingent, and never contested.

Connections

• Johann Jakob Bachofen - foil and challenger in the episode’s intellectual-history frame.
• 《母权论》 / Mother Right - book that contests patriarchal eternity.
• Matriarchy Question - question opened once patriarchy is treated as historical rather than natural default.