Ti; \\-li UOM TUI', A I, BOCIKTV 285 



make sure of legitimate male oflfspn The con- 



sequence was that the position of woman was regarded 



Having lost the power of personal choice in 



iage "she was eompeih-d to take whatever husband 

 chance or fortune II. r day of fonder- hip in 



household management had passed and there remained 

 only drudgery within a limi' 



p. ii. ! the whim of her hushand, so that she no 



longer had M in it- duration. II* r duties were 



often so arduous that she became prematurely old. i 



was always the danger that her place mi^ht be 



taken by a younger and more attractive wife. In this 



: al love marriage of earlier civili/ation" 



yielded to one of uncertainty and sensuality. But this 



-ramous marriage system existed only among the 



hy and powerful. Among the masses monogamy 

 was the rule, >ince it became too expensive for the ordi- 



man to maintain more than one wife. Thus "the 

 riage basis had become largely economic." IT An 

 other and darker aspect of the fierce transition from 



ii) mic conditions to the new organization, was the 

 enslaving of marriageable women of the conquered in 

 become the concuhines of the conquerors. 



With the estaMUhment ..f male ; and ance- 



worship, clan headships and tribal chieftainships tended 

 to become hereditary in eertain famili---. \ lindimr con- 

 tinuity of trihal tradition was formed which held to- 

 gether in compact union not only the mnnhrrs of the 

 clan and of the family, but also the livinir with the dead. 

 Thu> there was social integration and the structure of 

 society became more coherent and substantial. Yet it 



:nic trihe in which chieftainship had become heredi- 



' TValry. op. rtr. pp. 29-30. 



