Note 47 — Chapter I · THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY
Reading edition
Schrader, Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte (2d ed.), 536 ff.; Jevons's Translation, 369 ff.; Leist, Alt-arisches Jus Gentium, 51-58. Max Müller declares that "whether in unknown times the Aryas ever passed through that metrocratic stage in which the children and all family property belong to the mother, and fathers have no recognized position whatever in the family, we can neither assert nor deny."—Biographies of Words, xvii.