. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. self 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 sys
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. self 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 rail of Semitic .-, r A 1 •women under the women of Asshur were polygamousremanded 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- tribe gives place to the motive of pleas-life gives place to the settled life of the ure and sensual gratification, the insti-. CHALDEE WOMEN IN SERVITUDE. city, and when the usefulness of polyg-amy for the rapid multiplication of the tution becomes centered in that Jiarentwhich has survived in Oriental societies THE ARAMAEANS.—OLD ASSHURITES. 215 for more than three thousand years. Properly defined, the harem signifies that portion of a polyga- City harem ,^ t, • i . f, arises out of pas- miSt S hoUSe whlCh IS Set Olttoral polygamy. ^^^ gecluded 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 e ^ • i „ m
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