Note 403 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY

Spencer, Principles of Sociology, I, 679-81, 748 ff., 750. See, however, the criticism of Starcke, op. cit., 151-53, 159 ff.; and compare Westermarck, op. cit., 510 ff.; McLennan, Studies, I, 108 ff.; Fortnightly Review (1877), 701; and Spencer's "Short Rejoinder," ibid., 897. But elsewhere Spencer thinks the levirate may arise in the duty of caring for the brother's children—a general cause of polygyny: op. cit., 691, 692. For examples of inheritance of widows, see Kohler, "Das Recht der Azteken," ZVR., XI, 54; "Das Negerrecht, namentlich in Kamerun," ibid., XI, 416, 423; and for widower inheritance among the Chins, idem, ibid., 186 ff.