CHAPTER XL 



PATEENAL REGULATION. 



774. THOUGH the above title covers nearly all the sub 

 ject matter of this chapter, yet it is not entirely comprehen 

 sive. There are a few facts to be here noted which do not 

 come under it. Though otherwise unfit, the title &quot; Domestic 

 Regulation &quot; would, in respect of these facts, be the best. 



For the control of the household group does not without 

 exception centre in the husband and father. Historians and 

 the earlier ethnologists, studying exclusively the records of 

 Semitic and Aryan races, have regarded paternal rule and 

 domestic rule as equivalent expressions. But qualification 

 of their views has been necessitated by facts which study of 

 the human races at large has disclosed. The truth which a 

 generation ago was scarcely suspected, but which is now 

 familiar, that commonly among uncivilized peoples kinship 

 is reckoned through females and not through males, and that 

 very generally descent of property and rank follows the 

 female line, has necessitated remodelling the theories of Sir 

 Henry Maine and others, respecting the primitive family- 

 group. This change of view has been made greater by 

 recognition of the fact that even among peoples who in past 

 times reached high degrees of civilization, as the Egyptians 

 and the Peruvians, this system of relationship obtained 

 modified, however, in the case of the Inca race by establish 

 ment of the rule that the king or noble should marry his 



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