. 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 . 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 h
. 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 . 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 splendor hitherto among the cities built by men,polygamy flourished as the legal and. DOMESTIC LIFE AND F. mu tu L >l, .. which the lord of the house possesses;that is, the occupants of the haremproper. At a very early period in As-syrian and Babylonian history the sys-tem of polygamy became thus constitu-tional among the leading communitiesof the Semitic race. During the Chaldee ascendency, andafterwards in the age of Assvrian great- universal form of marriage, and it wasin these periods that the system, as de-veloped in the harem, became elaborate,formal, and immovably established inthe history of the race. In this formthe institution was handed down at lastto the Mohammedans; by them recog-nized as the foundation of society, andpei-petuated to the present time. Here- 216 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. after we shall note, when consideringthe constitution of Arabian society, thedoctrine of the Koran with regard topolygamy, and the details of the systemas practic
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