2i6 Darwin versus McLennan. 



this assumption of &quot; communal marriage,&quot; or ab 

 original hetairism, McLennan is followed by Lub- 

 bock, Bachofen, and Morgan, the theory receives 

 no confirmation either from the physiology and 

 psychology of man and other animals or from the 

 known customs of savage and barbarous peoples. 

 &quot; We may indeed conclude from what we know 

 of the jealousy of all male quadrupeds,&quot; says Dar 

 win, &quot; that promiscuous intercourse in a state of 

 nature is extremely improbable. . . . There 

 fore, 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 

 lie aboriginally lived in small communities, each 

 with a single wife, or if powerful with several, 

 whom he jealously guarded against all other men &quot; 

 (&quot; Descent of Man,&quot; pp. 590, 591). In archaic 

 times there prevailed 



u the simple plan, 



That they should take who have the power, 

 And they should keep who can.&quot; 



In the struggle for life and survival of the fittest 

 we expect the selection and evolution of power 

 and sexual jealousy. It seems incredible that, 

 as a general rule, equal and indiscriminate co 

 partnership in the possession of women should 

 have been the outcome of that war of all against 



