The History of Human Marriage, 44. köide;526. köideMacmillan, 1894 - 644 pages |
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Page viii
... text and the index , -and it may be well to add that the references in the notes have been carefully verified . E. W. LONDON , May , 1891 . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION IN this new edition of viii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
... text and the index , -and it may be well to add that the references in the notes have been carefully verified . E. W. LONDON , May , 1891 . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION IN this new edition of viii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
Page xiii
... reference to sex and age , as also to the external , or social , relationship in which the speaker stands to the person whom he addresses , pp . 90-95 . - No inference regarding early marriage customs to be drawn from the terms for ...
... reference to sex and age , as also to the external , or social , relationship in which the speaker stands to the person whom he addresses , pp . 90-95 . - No inference regarding early marriage customs to be drawn from the terms for ...
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... reference to the Kurnai in South Australia , Mr. Howitt states that " the man has to provide for his family with the assistance of his wife . His share is to hunt for their support , and to fight for their protection . " As a Kurnai ...
... reference to the Kurnai in South Australia , Mr. Howitt states that " the man has to provide for his family with the assistance of his wife . His share is to hunt for their support , and to fight for their protection . " As a Kurnai ...
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... reference to the tribes of the Barito district , in the south - east part of Borneo.10 A Burmese woman can demand a divorce , if her husband is not able to maintain her properly . Among the Mohammedans , the maintenance of the children ...
... reference to the tribes of the Barito district , in the south - east part of Borneo.10 A Burmese woman can demand a divorce , if her husband is not able to maintain her properly . Among the Mohammedans , the maintenance of the children ...
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... reference to the elephant , " The richness of their woods is so great , that they really never suffer want . " But the man - like apes do not belong to this class . According to Mr. Winwood Reade , the male Gorillas fight at the rutting ...
... reference to the elephant , " The richness of their woods is so great , that they really never suffer want . " But the man - like apes do not belong to this class . According to Mr. Winwood Reade , the male Gorillas fight at the rutting ...
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Page 118 - Therefore, looking far enough back in the stream of time, and judging from the social habits of man as he now exists, the most probable view is that he aboriginally lived in small communities, each with a single wife, or if powerful with several, whom he jealously guarded against all other men.
Page 155 - It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Page 252 - I have seen the female sitting quietly on a branch, and two males displaying their charms in front of her. One would shoot up like a rocket, then suddenly expanding the snow-white tail like an inverted parachute, slowly descend in front of her, turning round gradually to show off both back and front. The...
Page 164 - Tonga hold true for a great many, not to say all, savage and barbarous races now existing. " It must not be supposed," he says, " that these women are always easily won ; the greatest attentions and most fervent solicitations are sometimes requisite, even though there be no other lover in the way.
Page 50 - He has invented and is able to use various weapons, tools, traps, &c., with which he defends himself, kills or catches prey, and otherwise obtains food. He has made rafts or canoes for fishing or crossing over to neighbouring fertile islands. He has discovered the art of making fire, by which hard and stringy roots can be rendered digestible, and poisonous roots or herbs innocuous.
Page 562 - The Marriage of Near Kin, Considered with respect to the Laws of Nations, Results of Experience, and the Teachings of Biology.
Page 43 - ... their common defence. It is no argument against savage man being a social animal, that the tribes inhabiting adjacent districts are almost always at war with each other; for the social instincts never extend to all the individuals of the same species. Judging from the analogy of the majority of the Quadrumana, it is probable that the early ape-like progenitors of man were likewise social; but this is not of much importance for us.
Page 43 - ... rice-farms, are the oftener cleared, and hence are almost always wanting in suitable trees for their nests. . . . It is seldom that more than one or two nests are seen upon the same tree, or in the same neighbourhood : five have been found, but it was an unusual circumstance.
Page 155 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry : for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 171 - A totem is a class of material objects which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and altogether special relation...