collegiae

Updated: July 14, 2025

Only now, when hundreds of guild statutes have been published and studied, and their relationship to the Roman collegiae, and the earlier unions in Greece and in India, is known, can we maintain with full confidence that these brotherhoods were but a further development of the same principles which we saw at work in the gens and the village community.

kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin - Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution