CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 

 RISE OF FATHERRIGHT 



The stages through which conjugal relations have passed are not 

 uniform but dependent on environment and other influences. The 

 stages to be reviewed therefore are not necessarily consecutive. 

 Frailty of the conjugal bond. The entertainment of temporary 

 husbands at the wife's home. Relations beginning with secret 

 visits by the lover tend to become open and permanent. Cupid 

 and Psyche. Secret relations between husband and wife. Open 

 visits by husband. Polygamous visiting husbands. Marriages in 

 which the husband goes to reside permanently with his wife. 

 Commutation of the husband's permanent residence in his wife's 

 family. Husband's probation as a relic of an earlier custom of 

 visiting. Effect of payment of bride-price. Husband's permanent 

 residence in his wife's family : its tendency to patrilineal 

 reckoning. Evolution of father-right among various peoples of the 

 Old and New Worlds. Summary : general course of the evolution 

 of conjugal relations, and reasons for the inevitable decay and 

 supersession of motherright. The reckoning of kinship through 

 the father is not founded on blood, but is a social convention. 



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CHAPTER VI 

 MARITAL JEALOUSY 



Continence not a savage virtue. Female chastity a slow growth from 

 the limitations imposed by the masculine sense of ownership upon 

 the gratification of sexual instincts. In the lower culture jealousy 

 operates only feebly or within limits. Examination of cases 

 among matrilineal peoples. Survival of matrilineal freedom into 

 fatherright. Peoples in a state of transition or where kinship is 



