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nians, and that it is probable that " exogamy/ 3 or the 

 marriage of women with husbands of other tribes, 

 prevailed among them. Following other writers 

 above referred to, however, he falls into the error of 

 tracing these customs to a supposed primitive period 

 of promiscuous intercourse of the sexes. He further 

 shows that the Etruscans, as tomb-builders, as be- 

 lievers in the immortality of the soul, and in manitous 

 or spirits, and in having medicine-men, or shamans, 

 rather than priests, were essentially Turanian and 

 American. Much that he says of the tombs of the 

 Etruscans is perfectly applicable to those of the Peru- 

 vians and of the Alleghans, and the relations which 

 he traces between the funeral rites and sepulchres of 

 these more civilized nations and the ruder Ugrian 

 tribes of Europe and Asia are precisely parallel to the 

 similar relations of the more cultivated and ruder 

 nations in America. The words in which he sums up 

 his conclusions on these points deserve quotation here, 

 as most significant with reference to our present pur- 

 pose. " The vast and numerous monuments which 

 constitute the tombs of this (the Turanian) race can 

 always be recognised ; they exhibit a most remarkable 

 and most significant unity of design and purpose. 

 These tombs are all developments of one hereditary 

 type ; they are all the expressions of one hereditary 

 belief, and they all serve the purposes of one great 

 hereditary cultus. The type on which they are 

 modelled is the house. The belief which they express 

 is the fundamental truth which has been the great 



