THE FAMILY, THE HOME 131 



But as a driving wind in winter will gather the 

 individually beautiful snow crystals in shapeless 

 heaps or drifts, so was the coercive force of common 

 danger required to induce primitive human beings 

 to exchange the natural freedom of individual and 

 family life for the restraints of the tribe or clan. 



Can it be asserted that the existence of tribe or 

 clan absolutely ante-dated the earliest primitive 

 human families? Not without denying by inexor- 

 able implication the upright stature of the human 

 race and its unavoidable consequences. For human 

 individuals were the only material from which such 

 aggregates could be formed. These individuals could 

 not be anything else than the offspring of human 

 parents of upright stature. During the long help- 

 less infancy of such offspring, they and their mothers 

 had to be supported by the father or perish. Sup- 

 port of mother and offspring by the father during a 

 lengthy period constitutes genuine family relations. 

 Therefore, can the absolute priority of the tribe, 

 clan, or other aggregates not be asserted without 

 implying a denial of the existence of physical up- 

 rightness in man, which is absurd and contrary to 

 the hypothesis. 



That beautiful relation between two people of 

 opposite sex known as monogamic marriage has, 

 heretofore, usually been looked upon as one of the 

 latest results of governmental, religious, and conven- 

 tional regulations, enforced only within the highest 

 types of civilized societies. From the preceding 



