CHAPTER VII 



THE FAMILY, MONOGAMIC MARRIAGE, ECONOMIC DE- 

 PENDENCE OF WOMAN, THE HOME 



The existence of four institutions peculiar to the 

 human race: the family, monogamic marriage, the 

 economic dependence of woman, and the home, have 

 been accounted for in the preceding chapters. 



All four were traced to the earliest period in the 

 existence of the two footed brute ancestry of man, 

 and to physical uprightness, through the survival of 

 the fittest, as a cause. 



A vast amount of evidence, drawn from the reports 

 of travelers who have lived for many years in bar- 

 barous or semi-savage communities, in order to 

 study their customs, beliefs, and traditions, has been 

 adduced by some writers in support of the contention 

 that the horde, group, tribal community, or clan 

 ante-date the family. 



How can such a view be reconciled with the ap- 

 parently conclusive evidence furnished in preceding 

 chapters, that family relations closely resembling 

 those of the present day prevailed during the very 

 dawn of human existence on earth? Only on the 

 hypothesis (and it is legitimate to answer one hypoth- 

 esis with another) that the modem type of family is 



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