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 .. . uld lead to the destructionof the girls and to the preservation ofthe boys. By this means the tribal so-ciety would soon have a preponderanceof males and a paucity of females. Thisis a monogamic condition. Such a stateis the antecedent of single marriage. Under such circumstances several menwould compete for a single woman. Thestrongest would obtain her, Nature of thepartly by his strength and ^^bypartly by her pr
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 .. . uld lead to the destructionof the girls and to the preservation ofthe boys. By this means the tribal so-ciety would soon have a preponderanceof males and a paucity of females. Thisis a monogamic condition. Such a stateis the antecedent of single marriage. Under such circumstances several menwould compete for a single woman. Thestrongest would obtain her, Nature of thepartly by his strength and ^^bypartly by her preference confirmed,for him as the best. He who obtainedcould generally defend. The man thusmarried would become a party of thefirst part, and those whom he had sur-passed in competition a party of the sec-ond part, both obliged to the mainte-nance of the union thus of the party of the second partwould hope in turn to obtain some otherwoman as his own, and thus to becomea party of the first part, in a compact towhich his competitors were a party ofthe second part. Here are the founda-tions of a natural league on the part ofall to support and maintain FORM OF ROYAL TOMB IN POLYGAMOUS COUNTRY.—Drawn by Taylor, from a photograph. 602 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. Under other conditions a wholly dif-ferent state of circumstances mightCertain other arise. In a warm and fer- conditionstend dl island or in a feCUndto establish polygamy. Oriental valley—where na- ture brings forth in abundance all thingssoever which are desired by man, whereher resources seem exhaustless and theeater has but to lift his hand to the bend-ing bough to gather what fruits he will,where the genial atmosphere and theequability of the seasons requires noclothing and suggests no permanentshelter, where even the infant, beforeit leaves its mothers breast, begins togather from its environment all mannerof natural foods adapted to its wants—the law of life and of the maintenanceof life
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