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among the Romans a man might not marry 

 within the prohibited degrees, yet must marry a 

 Roman, so among savages there is an endogamous 

 as well as an exogamous circle ; and while any 

 particular division is exogamous with regard to 

 itself, it is endogamous with regard to the re 

 maining divisions of the tribe. 



A word with regard to kinship through females 

 must end this survey of McLennan s account of 

 the family. That it exists among certain savages 

 is undeniable. That it ever existed as a rule for 

 the whole human race is an assumption that has 

 no probability in its favor, and an assumption we 

 have no motive to make when polyandry is found 

 not to be an invariable stage in the development 

 of marital relations. 



The facts McLennan has brought together are 

 eminently valuable. His speculative interpreta 

 tion of them, everywhere ingenious and original, 

 is sometimes fanciful and commonly open to the 

 charge of unwarranted generalization. 



A somewhat similar verdict must be pronounced 

 upon Morgan. 



Morgan undertook to determine the sequence 

 of family institutions from systems of reckoning 

 relationship. Comparing the systems of many 

 tribes, he held that the entire development of the 



