. 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 . down to posterity thetype which had been fixed and empha-sized by the inbred relation upon whichthe primal family was foimded. Norwould the type readily yield when mar-riage was extended beyond the limits of a delegation passing from clan to clanin friendly solicitation of wives for themen of their respective kiths. Thefirst sim
. 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 . down to posterity thetype which had been fixed and empha-sized by the inbred relation upon whichthe primal family was foimded. Norwould the type readily yield when mar-riage was extended beyond the limits of a delegation passing from clan to clanin friendly solicitation of wives for themen of their respective kiths. Thefirst simple relations among the tribesof the East were based in large measureupon the cross-marriages which werecultivated. Sometimes, though rarely,the man went over to the clan of hiswife, joining himself to the householdof his father-in-law or uncle by may see in this the rudiments of apossible state; for ere long, partly bywar and partly by marriage affiliations,. RUINS OF SIPPARA.— by kinship. The more powerful ethnicpeculiarity prevailed over the weaker,and the wife selected from a collateralbranch of the tribe or from some foreignclan transmitted the features and man-ners of her lord rather than her own. In course of time the in-marriagesgave way, perhaps under the influenceCross-marriage of a deep-seated human in-thftnr^nr^ stinct, to out-marriages. Atthe state. ^ Very early date the pas- toral lords of the Euphratine countriesbegan to send abroad for their was more common than to see A. de I;.ir, alter a ^ketch oi L^jruu. many clans and tribes would unite incommon enterprises. We here speak of a condition of af-fairs pi-evalent in lower Mesopotamiabefore the age of city , ^ . Chaldaean soci- building and foreign com- ety transformed, , , ^1 to civic aspects. merce. At length, as wehave seen, the pastoral and nomadiccondition began to develop into the seden-tary life. Permanent habitations , and the clans be
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