Note 259 — Chapter II · THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT
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Such is the view of Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, 103, 129, 134, 135; Westermarck, Human Marriage, 466, 472, 473, 547; Fison and Howitt, op. cit., 133 ff., 171 ff., 190, 357; Wake, Marriage and Kinship, 75 ff. "It is not proved that the tribes which practice child-murder put to death the female infants by preference."—Starcke, op. cit., 131 ff. Such is also the opinion of Fison and Howitt, loc. cit.; Lubbock, op. cit., 103; Darwin, Descent of Man, II, 364, 591-93; and Giraud-Teulon, op. cit., 110-16. See also Smith, Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, 129, 130, 279-85; Friedrichs, "Familienstufen," ZVR., X, 219-37; Ploss, Das Kind, II, 243-64; idem, Das Weib, I, 250, 251; Grosse, Die Formen der Familie, 36; Schneider, Die Naturvölker, I, 297 ff.; Martin, Hist. de la femme, 3 ff.; and various examples in ZVR., VII, 355, 374; IX, 14 ff. (Todas); X, 122; XI, 427 (Kamerun); Brouardel, L'infanticide (Paris, 1897); Marshall, A Phrenologist amongst the Todas, 108 ff., 190 ff.; Nelson, "The Eskimo about Bering Strait," in XVIII. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., Part I, 289; Chamberlain, The Child, etc., 110 ff.
In his second series of Studies, 74, 111, McLennan defends his view as to the prevalence of female infanticide and presents a mass of facts relating to it among many peoples. Farrer, Early Wedding Customs, 224, denies that infanticide is the cause of exogamy.