3 risk to mule life at the hands 



PolvaiH 



iivam 



1 a-nation are bound to-ether in 31r 



. .AlcJ.ennan's 



theory l>v 





s of sueeession to inheritnnee, in ot 



her word. l)y 



property, ; 





n-eover the eonditions of life with wh 





deals to ex 



plain 



suoces.ion through males are those ol 



-■.emicivilized 



peoples a, 







-.Hi property. 



There is a 





further b.iek than this exemplllied 



in Australian 





lile, ; 



.txvl.ieli there is scarcely au-ht but territory to 



cl^ln'and 





ril)al rather than personal property, 



and as for the 



women, w 



ith ex. 



i^amv in regular operation, thoy possess nothing 



beyond a f 



eu liu 



va.ls, nets, baskets, or the like, about • 



Lhe successiOTi 



to which t 





^ likely to 1)C no quarrel. At such a 



stage woman 



possesses j 



)racti(. 



■ally nntliini,' but her name and her ( 



•harms, while 



she her.elf is uu 



m's mo.^t precious property. It seei 



Ub to me that 



the priniit 



ive id. 



..ofac<iuiring and holding won>a. 



. as one's own 



property is at tl 





the majority 



of cases ^v 



ould c 



onduco to polygyny rather than to p( 



)lyandry. Let 



itbeassu. 





lat in the rudest state of society men 



covet women 







iliar poss<^ssion and the following 



results, which 



ol>tain in 



Austn 



ilia, ensue. The matured males by 



■dint of force, 



and the v\ 



derly 



men by the authority of age, will co 



ntrivt> to pro- 



vide then. 





with a plurality of wives while the 



younger men 



must of n. 



vr^ssi*t 



y remain single unices they^ procui 



•e partners by 



t:apturin<r 







.vould thus bo 



iuconti.u, 



al del 



land, and exoganTy would be condu. 



>ted first in a 



Si': 



;|i^;; ;;: 



ul predatory manner and later by Iw 



.rter or agree- 



Fron. 1, 



eing ii 



1 a s(>nse inevitable, exogamy woul 



d become the 



normal in( 



)de of 



nmrriage, and the result would be t 





in a tribe 



would 



[ bo of a dirterent tribe from tin ir 



husbands and 



^vould lia% 



•e tlie 





them. With 



iudehnitc 



paternity and detinite maternity the el 



lildren ^^ould 



l^clong to the ni 







goneralor 



triba 



I name the foreign mothers bore ■ 



.vould also be 



attached to their ottspring, unless the latter received a new special 

 name from their hybrid appearance. Thus in process of time a 

 homogeneous tribe would become heterogeneous in blood and 

 emliraee two, if not more, intermarrying classes and tend to endo- 

 gamy fxs iv-,ir<K the tribe, exogamy still characterizing the classes. 

 1'He struct ure of Australian society carries us no further. Put 

 brielly the -t igrs of social development would be : 



(1) monogamy 



(2) the consanguine family (marriage within the family) 



