480 SYSTEMS OF CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY 



I. Promiscuous Intercourse. 



II. The Intermarriage or Cohabitation of Brothers and Sisters. 

 III. The Communal Family. (First Stage of the Family.) 

 IV". The Hawaiian Custom. Giving 

 V. The Malayan form of the Classificatory System of Relationship. 

 VI. The Tribal Organization. Giving 

 VII. The Turanian and Ganowanian System of Relationship. 

 VIII. Marriage between Single Pairs. Giving 

 IX. The Barbarian Family. (Second Stage of the Family.) 

 X. Polygamy. Giving 

 XI, The Patriarchal Family. (Third Stage of the Family.) 

 XII. Polyandria. 



XIII. The Rise of Property with the Settlement of Lineal Succession to Estates. 



Giving 



XIV. The Civilized Family. (Fourth and Ultimate Stage of the Family.) Pro- 



ducing. 

 XV. The Overthrow of the Classificatory System of Relationship, and tlic Sub- 

 stitution of the Descriptive. 



The first four customs and institutions being given, the origin of the Malayan 

 system can be demonstrated from the nature of descents, and the several relation- 

 ships shown to be those actually existing. In like manner the first six being given 

 (although IV. is not material), the origin of the Turanian system can be explained 

 on the principle of natural suggestion, and the relationships proved to be in accord- 

 ance with the nature of descents. Whether, given the Turanian system of relation- 

 ship, the antecedent existence of these customs and institutions can be legitimately 

 inferred, Avill depend upon the probability of their prevalence, from the nature of 

 human society, and from what is known of its previous conditions. It may be 

 confidently affirmed that this great sequence of customs and institutions, although 

 for the present hypothetical, will organize and explain the body of ascertained facts, 

 with respect to the primitive history of mankind, in a manner so singularly and 

 surprisingly adequate as to invest it with a strong probability of truth. 



Although the universal prevalence of promiscuous intercourse in the primitive 

 ages, involving the cohabitation of brothers and sisters as its most common form, 

 rests, for the present, upon an assumption, evidence is not wanting in many barbarous 

 nations of such a previous condition. In several civilized nations the intermarriage 

 of brother and sister continued long after civilization had supervened irpon bar- 

 barism. Without multiplying cases, one of the Ilerods was married to his sister, 

 and Cleopatra was married to her brother. Even these modern cases are more 

 satisfactorily explained as the remains, as well as the evidence, of an ancient custom, 

 than as a lapsed condition of private morals. 



The Hawaiian custom is neither a matter of conjecture nor of assumption. 

 Traces of its prevalence were found by the American missionaries in the Sandwich 

 Islands when they established their missions, and its antecedent universal preva- 

 lence amongst this people is unquestionable. Tliis custom, wliich has elsewhere 

 (siqyra, page 453, note) been explained, is a compound form of polygynia and poly- 



