84 MARRIAGE AND HEREDITY 



upon the Greeks especially in admitting Usus as a 

 form of marriage, and thereby acknowledging the in- 

 dividual rights of women. But sentimental regard 

 for female honour, with all that that implies in the 

 constitution of the family and of the community at 

 large, was unknown in Kome, or existed only in the 

 germ. Society has left far behind it the ideas of the 

 Augustan age in regard to the relations of the sexes, 

 and it now behoves us to trace the route by which it 

 has travelled- 



