55/02

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Ilona Duczynska to George Dalton

[1] In the introductory part: in the list of his loved authors, from whom he learnt, I miss Marx and Maine. Not as if had been a Marxist (Kari is right in her article when she says this bluntly; but he was not a Maine-ist either or a Weber-ist or for that matter, and other-ist. Yet his indebtedness to Marx and to Maine is very great indeed. Personally, I feel that in this list the name of Herskovits is redundant. Karl would have made all acknowledgements where they were due but he did not learn from Herskovits nor think of him with the reverence and love he kept for his heroes of the mind.