Note 261 — Chapter II · THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT

Ibid., 646, 647. But McLennan meets this difficulty by insisting that wife-stealing, among polyandrous peoples would lead to polygyny on the part of the most successful. This would also explain the inconsistency alleged by Spencer (648) that polygyny and polyandry sometimes coexist, as among Fuegians, Caribo, Eskimo, Warrens, Hottentots, and the ancient Britons. See McLennan, Studies, I, 145, 146; and cf. Post, Familienrecht, 62.