They had advanced a step beyond the Scythians, Goetulians, and those, whom we described before; and thus was the third situation of mankind a state of _subordinate society_.
* * * * * FOOTNOTES [Footnote 036: This conclusion concerning the dissociated state of mankind, is confirmed by all the early writers, with whose descriptions of primitive times no other conclusion is reconcileable.] [Footnote 037: Justin.

L.2.

C.2.] [Footnote 038: Sallust.Bell.

Jug.] [Footnote 039: Sallust.Bell.

Catil.] [Footnote 040: Ammianus Marcellinus.