250 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF. 



Escliricht that, with mankind, the female as well as the 

 male foetus is furnished with much hair on the face, 

 especially round the mouth ; and this indicates that we 

 are descended from progenitors of whom both sexes are 

 bearded. It appears therefore at first sight probable that 

 man has retained his beard from a very early period, 

 while woman lost her beard at the same time that her 

 body became almost completely divested of hair. Even 

 the color of our beards seems to have been inherited from 

 an ape-like progenitor ; for, when there is any difference 

 in tint between the hair of the head and the beard, the 

 latter is lighter colored in all monkeys and in man. In 

 those Quadrumana in which the male has a larger beard 

 than that of the female, it is fully developed only at ma- 

 turity, just as with mankind ; and it is possible that 

 only the later stages of development have been retained 

 by man. In opposition to this view of the retention of 

 the beard from an early period, is the fact of its great va- 

 riability in different races, and even within the same race ; 

 for this indicates reversion — long-lost characters being 

 very apt to vary on reappearance. 



DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAERIAGE-TIE. 



Descent Although the manner of the development 



of Man, of the marriage-tie is an obscure subject, as 

 page 590. we m ^ - m ^ eT f TOm ^ e divergent opinions on 

 several points between the three authors who have studied 

 it most closely, namely, Mr. Morgan, Mr. McLennan, and 

 Sir J. Lubbock, yet, from the foregoing and several other 

 lines of evidence, it seems probable that the habit of mar- 

 riage, in any strict sense of the word, has been gradually 

 developed ; and that almost promiscuous, or very loose, 

 intercourse was once extremely common throughout the 



