2i2 Its Actual Facts. 



men were assigned to one woman and she to 

 them, exclusively, and when to this rudest form 

 of polyandry succeeded that (practised by the 

 Tibetans) in which the husbands are all brothers, 

 it became for the first time possible to determine, 

 if not the father, at least the blood of the father ; 

 and as a consequence there began to emerge a 

 system of kinship and inheritance through males, 

 which received its full development when mar 

 riage became monogamous and paternity, there 

 fore, indisputable. How this new system of 

 reckoning relationship adapted itself, in the case 

 of exogamous tribes, to the practice of marrying 

 within the tribe, which was permissible under 

 the system of female kinship and had practically 

 made the tribe endogamous, it does not concern 

 us here to explain. We are interested in Hc- 

 Lennan s speculations only in so far as they con 

 cern the forms of family relations and the mo 

 rality of them. 



]STow, for that purpose, nothing is of more con 

 sequence than the facts ; and McLennan has put 

 it beyond doubt that the phenomena of infanti 

 cide, wife-stealing, exogamy, polyandry, kinship 

 through females as well as through males, and 

 tribal intermarriage or endogamy, are all to be 

 found within the area of savagery and barbarism. 



