Note 67 — Chapter I · THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY

McLennan, Patriarchal Theory, 10-14, 275 ff., 282, 284, 294, criticises Maine's theory of adoption. Kohler's investigations show that adoption, artificial brotherhood, milk-kinship, and like institutions have widely prevailed and rendered important service. Adoption, he holds, may arise in different motives; sometimes being due to sexual communism, when it is a means of assigning the children to particular fathers; but very generally arising in the desire for descendants to perpetuate the family-worship: "Studien über die künstliche Verwandtschaft," ZVR., V, 415-40; see also for much important matter his various other writings in ZVR., III, 408-24, 393 ff. (India); VI, 190 (Chins), 345 (Indian Archipelago), 377-79 (China), 403 (Korea); VII, 218 ff. (Punjab); VIII, 100 (Rajputs), 109-12 (Dekkan), 243, 244 (Arabia). See also Post, Familienrecht, 25-42, for an interesting account; also Mayne, Hindu Law and Usage, 60 ff., 77, 99-207; Leist, Alt-arisches Jus Gentium, 103 ff., 115, 606; Tornauw, "Das Erbrecht nach den Verordnungen des Islams," ZVR., V, 151; Friedrichs, "Familienstufen und Eheformen," ibid., X, 237-45; Starcke, Primitive Family, 146, 233; Huc, Chinese Empire, II, 226.