. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . culated to impressitself upon the shepherds and herdsmenof the East, and to be accepted by them,not only as natural and advantageous,but as of divine command. Among the people of Asshur polygamywas practiced to the exclusion of allother forms of marriage. The result ofthe system was the abasement of very few exceptio
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . culated to impressitself upon the shepherds and herdsmenof the East, and to be accepted by them,not only as natural and advantageous,but as of divine command. Among the people of Asshur polygamywas practiced to the exclusion of allother forms of marriage. The result ofthe system was the abasement of very few exceptions Fall of Semiticthe women of Asshur were JoiyganToutremanded to the condition usages,of social slaves. Even in the few in-stances in which the women of the raceemerged into prominence and renown,their fame rests rather on tradition andapocrypha than on historical inscriptionsand other authentic data. Under thesystem of polygamy the reproduction ofmen becomes the prime intent of society,and the woman necessarily falls to thelevel of a mere means unto the desiredend. 214 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. At a later period, when the wandering i tribe gives place to the motive of pleas-life gives place to the settled life of the I lire and sensual gratification, the insti-. CHALDEE WOMEN IN SERVrrUDE. city, and when the usefulness of polyg-amy for the rapid multiplication of the tution becomes centered in that liarcmwhich has survived in Oriental societies THE —OLD ASSnrRfTFS. 215 for more tlian three thousand years. Properly defined, the harem signifies that portion of a polvga- City harem . , , .... i «• arises out of pas- miSt S UOUSe \\-hlch IS Set Oll torai polygamy. ^^^ secluded for the Oc-cupation of the women. By a figure ofspeech, it also denotes the group of wives ness, when Nineveh was the capital ofthe world, and still later, in the timeswhen Babylon arose on the Law of multiple (•1 • , marriage flour- rums of her ancient re- jshesamongAra-nown to a splendo
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