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saw also that in Cueba, where the women join the men in 

 war, &quot; fighting by their side/ their position is much higher 

 than usual among rude peoples ; and, similarly, that in 

 Dahomey, where the women are as much warriors as the men, 

 they are so regarded that, in the political organization, &quot; the 

 woman is officially superior.&quot; On contrasting these excep 

 tional cases with the ordinary cases, in which the men, solely 

 occupied in war and the chase, have unlimited authority, 

 while the women, occupied in gathering miscellaneous small 

 food and carrying burdens, are abject slaves, it becomes clear 

 that diversity of relations to surrounding actions initiates 

 diversity of social relations. And, as we saw in 327, this 

 truth is further illustrated by those few uncivilized societies 

 which are habitually peaceful, such as the Bodo and the 

 Dhimals of the Indian hills, and the ancient Pueblos of North 

 America societies in which the occupations are not, or were 

 not, broadly divided into fighting and working, and severally 

 assigned to the two sexes ; and in which, along with a com 

 paratively small difference between the activities of the sexes, 

 there goes, or went, small difference of social status. 



So is it when we pass from the greater or less political 

 differentiation which accompanies difference of sex, to that 

 which is independent of sex to that which arises among 

 men. Where the life is permanently peaceful, definite class- 

 divisions do not exist. One of the Indian Hill-tribes to 

 which I have already referred as exhibiting the honesty, 

 truthfulness, and amiability, accompanying a purely indus 

 trial life, may be instanced. Hodgson says, &quot;all Bodo and 

 all Dhinuils are equal absolutely so in right or law 

 wonderfully so in fact.&quot; The like is said of another uu war 

 like and amiable hill tribe: &quot;the Lepchas have no caste dis 

 tinctions.&quot; And among a different race, the Papuans, may 

 be named the peaceful Arafuras as displaying &quot;brotherly 

 love with one another,&quot; and as having no divisions of rank. 



456. As, at first, the domestic relation between the sexes 



