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overlooked facts equally important. It was of 

 course known, both from Eoman and Hindoo law, 

 that persons within a certain degree of relation 

 ship (theoretically, in Hindoo law, persons de 

 scended from the same male ancestor), could not 

 intermarry. But McLennan was the first to show 

 the prevalence of a similar restriction among 

 savage and barbarous tribes. Unfortunately, he 

 made no study of their social or governmental reg 

 ulations ; and the fact that the members of a cer 

 tain group could not intermarry, taken along with 

 the fact of wife-stealing, seemed to him equiv 

 alent to universal prohibition among kindred. 

 But the study of the government of savages is 

 tending to the same result as we have just noted 

 among the Aryans. Many of the tribes quoted 

 by McLennan as exogamous are found to be 

 made up of divisions, or cjentes (as Morgan calls 

 them) ; and while a member of a division is for 

 bidden marriage within it, he may marry in any 

 of the other divisions of his tribe. Thus among 

 the Iroquois, a Wolf may not marry in the Wolf 

 clan, but he may marry a woman of any of the 

 remaining seven clans among the five tribes of 

 the Iroquois ; and Sir Henry Maine notices the 

 same external circle among the Chinese. It is 

 coming, therefore, to be established, that as 



