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der it, all consanguine!!, near and remote, are 

 classified into five categories. Tims, myself, my 

 brothers and sisters, and those whom we call first, 

 second, third, and more remote cousins, are all 

 without distinction brothers and sisters. My 

 father and mother, together with their brothers 

 and sisters, and what we call their first, second, 

 and more remote cousins, are all without distinc 

 tion my parents. Similarly of grandparents. 

 And, below me, my sons and daughters, with 

 their several cousins, as before, are all without 

 distinction my children. And similarly of grand 

 children. Moreover, all the individuals of the 

 same grade are brothers and sisters to each 

 other. 



Now, if this system, as we must assume, ex 

 pressed relationships which once actually existed, 

 we may deduce from it the form of the family in 

 which it originated. This can be no other than 

 what Morgan calls the consanguine family that 

 arising from the intermarriage of brothers and 

 sisters, own and collateral, in a group. Since 

 the relationships recognized in the system are 

 identical with those emerging from the consan 

 guine family, the latter must have been the ba 

 sis of the system of consanguinity. An illustra 

 tion or two will make this clear. The system 

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