THE EVOLUTION OF A FATHER 379 



higher Evolution of the world was secured. Hence 

 the exceptional value of the Father's development. 

 As the other half of the arch on which the whole 

 higher world is built, his taming, his domestication, 

 his moral discipline, are vital ; and in the nature 

 of things this was the next great operation under- 

 taken by Evolution. 



The first step in the transition was to relate him, 

 definitely and permanently, to the Mother. And 

 here a formidable initial obstacle had to be en- 

 countered. The apathy and estrangement between 

 husband and wife in the animal world is radical 

 and universal. There is almost no such thing 

 there as married life. Marriage, in anthropology, 

 is not a word for an occasion, but for a state ; it 

 is not, that is to say, a wedding, but a dwelling 

 together throughout life of husband and wife. Now 

 when Man emerged from the animal creation this 

 institution of conjugal life had not been arrived 

 at. Marriage like everything else has been slowly 

 evolved, and until it was evolved, until they learned 

 to dwell continually together, there was no chance 

 for mutual love to spring up between male and 

 female. In Nature the pairing season is usually 

 but an incident. It lasts only a very short time, 

 and during the rest of the year, with some excep- 

 tions, the sexes remain apart. From the invest!- 



