Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ogamy. It is the joiningof one man to one woman Monogamy de-and of her to thus established is age-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. T
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ogamy. It is the joiningof one man to one woman Monogamy de-and of her to thus established is age-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 shjuld be remarked that the sexualusage in different nations adopting differ-ent schemes of procreative relationshipis particularly tenacious, and is generally /p-L terminesbothB lines 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 J and maintain a regarded as more essential sexual code. , -, , c r ., to the welfare of the raceby those peoples who practice it than are. OLDEST TYPE OF THE MARRIED WOMAN—A CHALD/EANDrawn by Mile, de Lancelot, after a sketch by Madame Dieulafoy. the other schemes of union by 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 is-the 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 an
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