Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . gamy. It is the joiningof one man to one woman Monogamy de-and of her to thus established is ^g^.distinct from any of the three is especially different as it relates tooffspring. It signifies an ascertainedparentage in both maternity and paterni-ty. It signifies that all the children bornof one woman have a single father, andthat all the children born of one fatherhave a common mother. The relation isso
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . gamy. It is the joiningof one man to one woman Monogamy de-and of her to thus established is ^g^.distinct from any of the three is especially different as it relates tooffspring. It signifies an ascertainedparentage in both maternity and paterni-ty. It signifies that all the children bornof one woman have a single father, andthat all the children born of one fatherhave a common mother. The relation isso easily apprehensible that it need notbe described, either in itself or its re-sults. It should be remarked that the sexualusage in different nations adopting differ-ent schemes of procreative relationshipis particularly tenacious, and is generally q^i terminesbothlines of parent- 598 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. maintained with scrupulous exactitude by the sentiment of the given people. Monogamy is by no means All races have o j j and maintain a regarded as morc essential sexual code. ^ j_i ir r ii to the welfare of the raceby those peoples who practice it than are. OLDEST TYPE OF THE MARRIED WOMAN—ADrawn by Mile, dc Lancelot, after a sketch by Mada the other schemes of union b}^ the re-spective races among whom they pre-vail. There has never been found atribe of savages so low in the humanscale as not to have a certain sexual code,any departure from which by the mem- bers of the tribe would be regarded notonly as scandalous, but as destructive ofthe welfare and happiness of all. We can not pass from this analytic viewof the nature and methods employed bydifferent peoples in perpetuating therace without notic-ing the bearings ofthe subject on cer-tain controvertedquestions. Theprincipal of these isthe historical prior-ity of the severalplans of marriageenumerated problem is notso important in it-self as in its rela-t i o n s to anotherquestion. It is easyto perceive tha
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